Longyearbyen · 78.22 N 15.63 E

Svalbard Wire

Est. 2026

Everything said about Svalbard, in one place

Monday 25 November 2024Before the Wire, which starts 26 October 2026Updated 23:59

Daylight on 25 November: none, polar night, day 31. Polar night, day 31 of 112. The sun returns 15 February.

Polar night, day 31 of 112. The sun returns 15 February.

Svalbard Wire starts on 26 October 2026. Pages before that date show the history of the island.

History

The island's past

From the timeline, War and rebuilding

1942

Shipwrecked crews land at Kapp Linné and Hopen

On 12 November 1942 a lifeboat from the British steamer Chulmleigh, wrecked on a reef off Sørkapp, was thrown ashore at Kapp Linné, at the mouth of Isfjorden; nine of its men were found alive there by a Norwegian patrol on 2 January 1943. On 14 November a lifeboat from the Soviet steamer Dekabrist landed on Hopen, where four of its crew lived through the winter.

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