Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company

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Title: Spitzbergen - Arctic Coal Company
Photographer: Drummond MacGavin
Subject Headings: Geography - Maps, Natural Resources - Mines and Mineral Resources,
Condition: Good
Description: Sketch Map of NE Portion of Artic Coal Co.'s Tract No.1. Enlarged from G. De Geer's Geological Map of Central Spitsbergen" - 1910 [Blueprint map of lands south of the Advent River showing the boundary of the Arctic Coal Co.'s property and the line of a coal seam in the mountain side.]
Source of Description: Blueprint title [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Cynthia Callan
Date of Photo: October 1913
Medium: still image
Color: color
Size: 40.0 cm x 24.0 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS018-Z-14-02
Collection Name: Scott Turner 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:
• A map showing the Arctic Coal Company's coal test pits east of its main workings in Longyear Valley. The company hired Drummond MacGavin to lead a geological survey of part of its lands in 1912 and 1913.
6/24/2008 10:58:28 AM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher