Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company

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Title: Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Geography - Maps, Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources, History, Modern - 20th Century
Condition: Good
Description: Trondhjem Spitsbergen Kulkompagnie's Eindom ved Advent Bay 1:10,000. [A map of Advent Bay showing a plan of a coal mining operation].
Source of Description: Front of photograph [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Longyear Family
Date of Photo: 1903
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 15.9 cm x 19.5 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS031-01-09-01
Collection Name: Longyear Spitsbergen Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• This map is in a brochure called Veste Deposits of Coals on the Spitzberg Island Secured for Drontheim Account" which was an advertisement from the Trondhjem-Spitsbergen Kulkompanie (Trondheim-Spitsbergen Coal Company) for the sale of coal lands on Spitsbergen. The company claimed land on the west side of Advent Bay in 1900 and investigated and worked the coal seam there for a few years. The Arctic Coal Company bought the claim in 1905, which was to become their largest center of operations. The workings shown are a suggestion for the potential buyer and were never actually built."
3/11/2008 9:29:26 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher