True or false about Svalbard?

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The largest island in Svalbard is called Edgeøya.

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2 / 10

The polar bear lives in Greenland and migrates to Svalbard every winter.

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3 / 10

Austfonna is the largest glacier in Svalbard.

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4 / 10

There are no reindeer in Svalbard.

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5 / 10

Sixty percent of the archipelago is covered by glaciers.

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In the permafrost, 1300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, lies the world's largest security deposit for seeds.

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7 / 10

Longyearbyen got its name from the long (long) dark age (year).

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Today, no one operates coal mines in Svalbard.

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The dark period lasts from October 26 to February 16 in Longyearbyen.

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10 / 10

Longyearbyen is the only place where humans live on Svalbard.

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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.