Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company

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• This photograph shows the Arctic Coal Company’s settlement, Longyear City, probably in 1908. The ‘Jinny’ referred to in the caption was a jinny track or simple narrow gauge railway, which ran up the hill from near the settlement to Mine 1.
3/5/2008 1:54:33 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher