Word: svalbard
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Although NSA finally sent more than 800 students to Europe on its low cost tours, it ran into trouble early when the S. S. Svalbard, slated to carry 600 waiting students to Europe, was declared "unsafe" and was forbidden to sail by the U.S. Coast Guard...
...ship, the SS Svalbard, will arrive in Rotterdam on July 2 and return from Europe on August 313. The Svalbard, like the Volendam currently being used by the NSA and other organizations, is a former troopship, and accommodations will be austere. Recreation and orientation facilities will be provided on board the ship...
Under the present plan, the Svalbard, a vessel owned by Norway and leased to the International Refugee Organization, will leave New York for Rotterdam or Le Havre on June 22, returning to New York by September...
Like a pouting lip, the promontory of Northeast Foreland juts from Greenland's poleward face into the Arctic Ocean. Across a 300-mi. gap of ice-choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
...Oslo (formerly Christiania), Norwegian capital, Premier Johan Ludwig Mowinckel declared, during a day of national rejoicing, that "the incorporation of Svalbard makes Aug. 14 a red-letter day in our history. What happens today is an extension of Norwegian territory, and all Norwegians must rejoice that such an important territory in the Arctic Ocean becomes a part of Norway...