Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company

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• The coal stockpile shown here was an improvised solution to the need to store coal over winter. Over the winter season of 1908-09, the winter superintendent stocked coal under the aerial tramway near the dock. To get this coal to the company's dock, an incline railway was quickly erected in the summer of 1909, part of which is visible to the right of the stockpile.
4/8/2008 11:17:57 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher