We were going to camp and paddle around a section of the uninhabited north west of Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago.

我们准备到斯瓦尔巴德群岛，在斯匹次卑尔根群岛西北方向那些无人居住的小岛上露营和划船。

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The vault is on the island of Spitsbergen.

金库在斯匹次卑尔根岛。

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Another dispute is around the island of Spitsbergen, on which Russia has had mining rights since 1920. Norway says it owns the continental shelf around it.

另一纠纷就是斯匹卑尔根岛之争，俄罗斯宣称自1920年开始就有用那里的开矿权，俄挪威则称挪威拥有那里的环大陆架地区。

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Scott and Patrick, who is being treated at Southampton Hospital, were among four survivors injured on Friday at Spitsbergen island off Norway when a bear attacked their campsite.

BBC: Scott Bennell-Smith

The whales, known also as belugas, dived regularly to the bottom of Storfjorden, off the east coast of the main island of Spitsbergen, reaching areas it would have been difficult to monitor from a ship.

BBC: Whales probe Arctic fjord's secrets

Over the last twenty years more than 5000 kilometers of ice has passed beneath my skis during numerous expeditions to both poles, as well as treks across Greenland, Spitsbergen, Iceland, Ellesmere Island and the Patagonian Icecap.

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