What do you know about Brandal City?

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What is the name of the fjord in Svalbard where Brandal City was established?

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What was the name of the coal company Petter S. Brandal Shipa?

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For six weeks in the summer of 1916, Peter S. Brandal was in Brandal City planning the mining facility and the city. How many tons of coal did they bring home to Norway?

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In connection with the coal mining, the city got a railway. How many kilometers of railway were laid?

Photos: Birger Rasmussen

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What year did Brandal City change its name to Ny-Ålesund?

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What was the name of the airship Amundsen used in his attempt to reach the North Pole?

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What year did the Kingsbay accident happen?

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How many workers were expected to spend the winter in Brandal City?

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In what year did Roald Amundsen try to reach the North Pole by plane?

Photos: Hans Hjelle

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How many permanent research institutions can we find in Ny-Ålesund today?

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Brandal City

The history of Ny-Ålesund is both fascinating and dramatic. On several occasions over the past 100 years, the whole world has had its eyes on news from this world's northernmost city.

Seal hunting has been practiced along our coast for thousands of years. Seals were easy to catch and provided a lot of nutritious food for a growing coastal population, although it was probably the fat that was most important, even then.

Father and son Brandal started the seal hunt from Sunnmøre

1898 was a landmark year for the fishermen from Sunnmøre. Severin Brandal, father of Peter S. Brandal, took the lead in establishing seal fishing from Sunnmøre. Both men had noticed for several years, while fishing for cod in Finnmarka, that the skates there were loaded with skins and blubber from seals.