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Sabine Land ( ) is a land area on the east coast of
Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norw ...
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Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
. It is named after explorer General Sir Edward Sabine. Among the glaciers in the area is the Nordmannsfonna glacier.


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Geography of Svalbard Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub