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Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others. Volumes XIII and XIV
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No Man’s Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country
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were the first to place a "great vague mass of islands stretching round the coast" south of Edgeøya.
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Atlantic Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus): A Literature Survey and Status Report
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archipelago. The group consists of over forty islands and islets, including
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was the first to distinctly mark a group of small islands south of
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Dodd, G. J., G. P. Benson, & D. T. Watts. 1996.
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Thousand Islands (disambiguation)

Norwegian
Edgeøya
Svalbard
Brotskjer
Kulstadholmane
Utsira
Tufsen
Kong Ludvigøyane
Bölscheøya
Hornøya
Tiholmane
Meinickeøyane
Sletteøya
Schareholmane
Skråholmen
Brækmoholmane
Tareloppa
Vindholmen
Menkeøyane
Joris Carolus
Edgeøya
Muscovy Company
Gerard Valck
Peter Schenk the Elder
William Scoresby
Conway, W. M.
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978-1274351821

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