[LfS] Discovery of Svalbard

Day 2,325, 04:33 • Published in Norway Finland • by KnqzMishkin
...My motivation and reasoning.
Hi, my name is Knyaz Mishkin and i'm originally from Bulgaria 🙂
I start these articles generally for my foreign fellows... The fact that we play for state different from our original, give us a unique opportunity to explore and know more... more about other religion, language, history and culture. Soooo these articles is gonna be my try to give you a small amount of popular science about Svalbard. 🙂



Discovery of Svalbard
There is no conclusive evidence of the first human activity on Svalbard. Swedish archeologist Hans Christiansson found flint and slate objects he identified as Stone Age tools dating from ca. 3000 BC, but there is little support among his peers as no dwelling place has been found. During the 19th century, Norwegian historians proposed that Norse seamen had found Svalbard in 1194. This is based on annals that found Svalbarði four days sailing from Iceland. Although it forms the basis for the modern name of the archipelago, there is no scientific consensus that supports the hypothesis. Russian historians have proposed that Russian Pomors may have visited the island as early as the 15th century. This line was largely pursued by Soviet scholars, but again, no conclusive evidence has been found. The first undisputedly to have discovered the archipelago is an expedition led by the Dutch mariner Willem Barentsz, who was looking for the Northern Sea Route to China. He first spotted Bjørnøya on 10 June 1596 and the northwestern tip of Spitsbergen on 17 June. The sighting of the archipelago was included in the accounts and maps made by the expedition and Spitsbergen was quickly included by cartographers. Henry Hudson explored the islands in 1607.
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