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From: Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Coal mining has a long history in Longyearbyen. (It continues today on a small scale.) The industry was at its peak its peak in the early 1920s, and ruins of abandoned mines still dot the hillsides of the valley.

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