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    Kongsfjord is a fishing village in Berlevåg Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is one out of two preserved "væreier" localities in Finnmark. The...
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    Kongsfjord Telemetry Station (Norwegian: Kongsfjord telemetristasjon) was a satellite ground station located nearby Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard, Norway. It...
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    mining activity was terminated and Gerhardsen's Third Cabinet resigned. Kongsfjord Telemetry Station opened in 1967 and the town gradually transformed into...
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    village of Berlevåg and the village of Kongsfjord. The village of Berlevåg is by far the biggest; Kongsfjord only has around 45 inhabitants. Kjølnes...
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  • Settlement Qaarsut Greenland (Danish Realm) 70°43' N 161 yes yes Settlement Kongsfjord, Finnmark Norway 70°43' N 32 yes yes Settlement Forsøl, Finnmark 70°43'...
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    beachvolley-bane" (in Danish). Sermitsiaq. 24 July 2015. Retrieved 2023-02-23. "Kongsfjord International Scuba School". dive-and-sea-the-arctic-ocean.com. Archived...
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    Centre Zeppelin Station Telecommunications Hopen Radio Isfjord Radio Kongsfjord Telemetry Station .sj Satellite Station Svalbard Radio Undersea Cable...
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    Construction at Hamnerabben started in 1965 following the decision to build Kongsfjord Telemetry Station. The airport first hosted service to temporary landing...
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    Northern fulmar Nominate Fulmarus glacialis glacialis in Kongsfjord, Ny Alesund, Svalbard Conservation status Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification...
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    Centre Zeppelin Station Telecommunications Hopen Radio Isfjord Radio Kongsfjord Telemetry Station .sj Satellite Station Svalbard Radio Undersea Cable...
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    December 1940 Missing after 5 March 1944; likely sunk by a mine near Kongsfjord, Norway S-55 25 July 1941 Missing after 4 December 1943, possibly from...
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    17 May 1943: Soviet submarine S-56 sank tanker 1118-ton Eurostadt off Kongsfjord. 3676-ton Wartheland was lightly damaged by dud hit from the same salvo...
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    Group was deposited. Notable strata of the Barents Sea Group are the Kongsfjord and Båsnæring formations, which form prominent ridges and cliffs along...
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  • against the establishment of the European Space Research Organization's Kongsfjord Telemetry Station, although the protests did not stop construction. A...
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    [citation needed] The European Space Research Organization (ESRO) established Kongsfjord Telemetry Station in Ny-Ålesund as one of its four initial European Space...
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  • Ajax  Germany World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Kongsfjord (70°49′N 29°30′E / 70.817°N 29.500°E / 70.817; 29.500) by S-55 ( Soviet...
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  • NZRDXL MW DX Introduction - from the New Zealand Radio DX League (archived) MW Arctic DX Weblog from Kongsfjord, Norway International Radio Club of America...
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  • started negotiating a satellite ground station in Tromsø in 1965. It and Kongsfjord Telemetry Station in Ny-Ålesund were to be used by the European Space...
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    Centre Zeppelin Station Telecommunications Hopen Radio Isfjord Radio Kongsfjord Telemetry Station .sj Satellite Station Svalbard Radio Undersea Cable...
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    company town and gradually transformed it into a research community. Kongsfjord Telemetry Station and Ny-Ålesund Airport, Hamnerabben commenced operations...
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  • municipalities. The four power stations are Gandvik [no], Melkefoss, Skogfoss and Kongsfjord [no]. The company dates back to 1938. It was made a limited company in...
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    Centre Zeppelin Station Telecommunications Hopen Radio Isfjord Radio Kongsfjord Telemetry Station .sj Satellite Station Svalbard Radio Undersea Cable...
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  •  Kriegsmarine World War II: The KUJ-class submarine chaser was sunk in Kongsfjord (70°43′N 29°19′E / 70.717°N 29.317°E / 70.717; 29.317) by Soviet aircraft...
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    ocean acidification and warming during the polar night/twilight phase in Kongsfjord (Spitsbergen). Polar Biology.. doi:10.1007/s00300-016-2044-5 "Metabolic...
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    Centre Zeppelin Station Telecommunications Hopen Radio Isfjord Radio Kongsfjord Telemetry Station .sj Satellite Station Svalbard Radio Undersea Cable...
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    against the establishment of the European Space Research Organization's Kongsfjord Telemetry Station, although the protests did not stop construction. A...
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    Centre Zeppelin Station Telecommunications Hopen Radio Isfjord Radio Kongsfjord Telemetry Station .sj Satellite Station Svalbard Radio Undersea Cable...
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    permitting Svalbard Airport, Longyear. The Soviet Union also protested Kongsfjord Telemetry Station and the production of the 1985 action film Orion's Belt...
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