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4K UltraHD World Trip Virtual Walking Tour travel footage of Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen, Capital of Svalbard and Jan Mayen), showing Street Scenes of this legendary city. Walk, discover, explore and see the city life, ice-capped mountains, Longyearbyen Airport, a boat cruise around Spitsbergen towards Pyramiden City and much more; project finished & uploaded on 2021-09-22 by One Man Wolf Pack UltraHD Drone Footage. #travel #longyearbyen #svalbard

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About Longyearbyen: Longyearbyen is a small coal-mining town on Spitsbergen Island, in Norways Svalbard archipelago. This Arctic town is known for its views of the Northern Lights. The modern Svalbard Museum chronicles the regions natural and cultural history. It includes a stuffed polar bear. Live bears can occasionally be seen in the area. The North Pole Expeditions Museum recounts early efforts to reach the pole by air. // Longyearbyen (Urban East Norwegian: ˈlɔ̀ŋjiːrˌbyːən; The Longyear Town) is the worlds northernmost settlement (with population greater than 1,000) and largest inhabited area of Svalbard, Norway. It stretches along the foot of the left bank of the Longyear Valley and on the shore of Adventfjorden, the short estuary leading into Isfjorden on the west coast of Spitsbergen, the islands broadest inlet. As of 2002 Longyearbyen Community Council became an official Norwegian municipality. It is the seat of the Governor of Svalbard, whose mayor is Arild Olsen. Known as Longyear City until 1926, the town was established by and named after American John Munro Longyear, whose Arctic Coal Company started coal-mining there in 1906. Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK) took over the mining operations in 1916, and still conducts mining. The German Kriegsmarine almost completely destroyed the town on 8 September 1943, but rebuilding took place after the Second World War. Historically, Longyearbyen was a company town, but most mining operations moved to Sveagruva during the 1990s, and production ceased in 2017 due to immense financial losses suffered by SNSK since 2014 due to market conditions. Meanwhile, the town has seen a large increase in tourism and research. This includes the arrival of institutions such as the University Centre in Svalbard...