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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">DL5CW ,DL6JF , DL2JRM
will be active from<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>Svalbard archipelago<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>12-19 February 2014
as<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>JW/DL5CW<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>,<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>JW/DL6JF<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>,<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>JW/DL2JRM<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG><BR>They will be active
on HF Bands<BR>Activity including entry in ARRL CW Contest<BR>QSL
info <BR>JW/DL5CW via DL5CW <BR>JW/DL6JF via DL6JF<BR>JW/DL2JRM
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Scandinavians may have
discovered Svalbard as early as the 12th century. Traditional Norse
accounts exist of a land known as Svalbarð—literally "cold
shores"—although this may have referred to Jan Mayen, or a part of eastern
Greenland. Contemporaneous understanding was that both Svalbard and
Greenland were connected to Continental Europe.The archipelago may in that
period have been used for fishing and hunting.The Dutchman Willem Barentsz
made the first indisputable discovery of Svalbard in 1596, in an attempt
to find the Northern Sea Route.In 1604, an English ship landed at Bjørnøya
and started hunting walrus; annual expeditions followed.From 1611,
Spitsbergen became a base for whaling, where they targeted the bowhead
whale. Because of the lawless nature of the area, English, Danish, Dutch,
and French companies and authorities tried to use force to keep out other
countries' fleets.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Smeerenburg was one of
the first settlements, established by the Dutch in 1619.Smaller bases were
also built by the English, Danish and French. At first the outposts were
merely summer camps, but from the early 1630s, a few individuals started
to overwinter. Whaling at Spitsbergen lasted until the 1820s, when the
Dutch, British and Danish whalers moved elsewhere in the Arctic.By the
late 17th century, Russian hunters arrived; they overwintered to a greater
extent and hunted land mammals such as the polar bear and fox.After
British ships destroyed most of the Russian fleet in 1812, Russian
activity on Svalbard diminished, and became non-existent from the
1820s.Norwegian hunting—mostly for walrus—started in the 1790s, but was
abandoned about the same time as the Russians left.Whaling continued
around Spitsbergen until the 1830s, and around Bjørnøya until the
1860s.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">By the 1890s, Svalbard
had become a destination for Arctic tourism, coal deposits had been found
and the islands were being used as a base for Arctic exploration.The first
mining was done along Isfjorden by Norwegians in 1899; by 1904, British
interests had established themselves in Adventfjorden and started the
first all-year operations.Production in Longyearbyen commenced by American
interests in 1908;and Store Norske established itself in 1916, as did
other Norwegian interests during the war, in part by buying American
interests.<BR></SPAN></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>