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83 relations: Amsterdam, Arctic, Arctic and Antarctic Museum, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Arctic fox, Atlas, Barend, Barents Region, Barents Sea, Barentsøya, Barentsburg, Barley, Barrel, Bear Island (Norway), Bellsund, Cabin boy, Cartography, Ceremonial ship launching, Circa, Crystal, Drosophila melanogaster, Dutch Republic, Elling Carlsen, Exploration, Forlandsundet, Gerrit de Veer, Groat (grain), Hardtack, Harlingen, Netherlands, Icebreaker, Isfjorden (Svalbard), Jacob van Heemskerk, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Jan Rijp, Kara Sea, Kara Strait, Kildin Island, Kola Peninsula, Lou Lichtveld, Magdalenefjorden, Maurice, Prince of Orange, Mediterranean Sea, Midnight sun, Murmansk, Musket, Navigator, Netherlands, New Scientist, Northeast Passage, Northern Sea Route, ..., Nova Zembla (film), Novaya Zemlya, Novaya Zemlya effect, Permafrost, Petrus Plancius, Polar bear, Prins Karls Forland, Protein, Raudfjorden, Reinout Oerlemans, Rijksmuseum, Running amok, Saint Petersburg, Samoyedic peoples, Scurvy, Seal hunting, Seventeen Provinces, Severny Island, Siberia, Spitsbergen, Subsidy, Surname, Svalbard, Tall Ships' Races, Terschelling, Texel, The Hague, Tromsø, Underwater diving, University of Groningen, Vaygach Island, Walrus, Whaling. Expand index (33 more) »
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
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Arctic and Antarctic Museum
The Russian State Arctic and Antarctic Museum (Российский государственный музей Арктики и Антарктики) is a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, or AARI (Арктический и антарктический научно-исследовательский институт, abbreviated as ААНИИ) is the oldest and largest Russian research institute in the field of comprehensive studies of Arctic and Antarctica.
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Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
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Atlas
An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or a region of Earth.
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Barend
Barend or (somewhat dated spelling) Barent is a Dutch male given name and occasional middle name.
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Barents Region
The Barents Region is a name given, by advocates of establishing international cooperation after the fall of the Soviet Union, to the land along the coast of the Barents Sea, from Nordland in Norway to the Kola Peninsula in Russia and beyond all the way to the Ural Mountains and Novaya Zemlya, and south to the Gulf of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea and the great lakes Ladoga and Onega.
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Barents Sea
The Barents Sea (Barentshavet; Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.
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Barentsøya
Barentsøya, sometimes anglicized as Barents Island, is an island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, lying between Edgeøya and Spitsbergen.
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Barentsburg
Barentsburg (Баренцбург) is the second-largest settlement on Svalbard, with about 500 inhabitants (2007), almost entirely Russians and Ukrainians.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Barrel
A barrel, cask, or tun is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wooden staves bound by wooden or metal hoops.
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Bear Island (Norway)
Bear Island (Bjørnøya) is the southernmost island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.
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Bellsund
Bellsund is a long sound on the west coast of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago of Norway.
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Cabin boy
A cabin boy or ship's boy is a boy (in the sense of low-ranking young male employee, not always a minor in the juridical sense) who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship, especially running errands for the captain.
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Cartography
Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.
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Ceremonial ship launching
Ceremonial ship launching is the process of transferring a vessel to the water.
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Circa
Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.
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Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
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Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (the taxonomic order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.
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Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic was a republic that existed from the formal creation of a confederacy in 1581 by several Dutch provinces (which earlier seceded from the Spanish rule) until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.
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Elling Carlsen
Elling Carlsen (8 September 1819 – 18 April 1900) was a Norwegian skipper, seal hunter and explorer.
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Exploration
Exploration is the act of searching for the purpose of discovery of information or resources.
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Forlandsundet
Forlandsundet is an 88 km long sound separating Prins Karls Forland and Spitsbergen.
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Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer (c. 1570 – after 1598) was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages (1595 and 1596) in search of the Northeast passage.
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Groat (grain)
Groats (or in some cases, "berries") are the hulled kernels of various cereal grains such as oat, wheat, rye, and barley.
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Hardtack
Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of biscuit or cracker, made from flour, water, and sometimes salt.
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Harlingen, Netherlands
Harlingen (West Frisian: Harns) is a municipality and a city in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland on the coast of Wadden Sea.
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Icebreaker
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.
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Isfjorden (Svalbard)
Isfjorden is the second longest fjord in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
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Jacob van Heemskerk
Jacob van Heemskerk (3 March 1567 – 25 April 1607) was a Dutch explorer and later admiral commanding the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Gibraltar.
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Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563 – 8 February 1611) was a Dutch merchant, trader and historian.
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Jan Rijp
Jan Corneliszoon Rijp (ca. 1570 - after 1613) was a Dutch mariner in the late sixteenth and early seventieth centuries.
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Kara Sea
The Kara Sea (Ка́рское мо́ре, Karskoye more) is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia.
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Kara Strait
The Kara Strait or Kara Gates (translit) is a wide channel of water between the southern end of Novaya Zemlya and the northern tip of Vaygach Island.
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Kildin Island
Kildin (also Kilduin; Кильдин, North Sami: Gieldasuolu) is a small Russian island in the Barents Sea, off the Russian shore and about 120 km from Norway.
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Kola Peninsula
The Kola Peninsula (Ко́льский полуо́стров, Kolsky poluostrov; from Куэлнэгк нёаррк, Kuelnegk njoarrk; Guoládatnjárga; Kuolan niemimaa; Kolahalvøya) is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia.
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Lou Lichtveld
Lodewijk 'Lou' Lichtveld (November 3, 1903 – October 7, 1996) was a Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter who wrote under the pseudonym "Albert Helman".
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Magdalenefjorden
Magdalenefjorden is an 8 km long and up to 5 km wide fjord between Reuschhalvøya and Hoelhalvøya, Albert I Land, on the west coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago.
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Maurice, Prince of Orange
Maurice of Orange (Dutch: Maurits van Oranje) (14 November 1567 – 23 April 1625) was stadtholder of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic except for Friesland from 1585 at earliest until his death in 1625.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Midnight sun
The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the sun remains visible at the local midnight.
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Murmansk
Murmansk (p; Мурман ланнҍ; Murmánska; Muurman) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor.
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Navigator
A navigator is the person on board a ship or aircraft responsible for its navigation.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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Northeast Passage
The Northeast Passage (abbreviated as NEP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the shipping route to the Pacific Ocean, along the Arctic Ocean coasts of Norway and Russia.
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Northern Sea Route
The Northern Sea Route (Се́верный морско́й путь, Severnyy morskoy put, shortened to Севморпуть, Sevmorput) is a shipping route officially defined by Russian legislation as lying east of Novaya Zemlya and specifically running along the Russian Arctic coast from the Kara Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait.
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Nova Zembla (film)
Nova Zembla is a 2011 Dutch historical drama film directed by Reinout Oerlemans.
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Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya (p, lit. the new land), also known as Nova Zembla (especially in Dutch), is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in northern Russia and the extreme northeast of Europe, the easternmost point of Europe lying at Cape Flissingsky on the Northern island.
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Novaya Zemlya effect
The Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar mirage caused by high refraction of sunlight between atmospheric thermoclines.
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Permafrost
In geology, permafrost is ground, including rock or (cryotic) soil, at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years.
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Petrus Plancius
Petrus Plancius (1552 – May 15, 1622) was a Dutch-Flemish astronomer, cartographer and clergyman.
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Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.
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Prins Karls Forland
Prins Karls Forland or Forlandet, occasionally anglicized as Prince Charles Foreland, is an island off the west coast of Oscar II Land on Spitsbergen in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway.
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Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
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Raudfjorden
Raudfjorden (English: Red fjord) is a 20 km long and 5 km wide fjord on the northwestern coast of Spitsbergen.
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Reinout Oerlemans
Reinout Oerlemans (born 10 June 1971) is a Dutch soap opera actor, film director, television presenter and television producer.
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Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum (National Museum) is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam.
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Running amok
Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok or gone amok, also spelled amuk, from the Southeast Asian Austronesian languages (especially Malaysian and Indonesian), is "an episode of sudden mass assault against people and/or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Southeast Asia's Austronesian cultures, but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior".
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).
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Samoyedic peoples
The Samoyedic people (also Samodeic people) Some ethnologists use the term 'Samodeic people' instead 'Samoyedic', see are the people that speak Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic family.
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Scurvy
Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
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Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.
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Seventeen Provinces
The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century.
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Severny Island
Severny Island (Се́верный о́стров, "Northern Island") is the northern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, lying approximately 400 km north of the Russian mainland.
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Siberia
Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.
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Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: Vest Spitsbergen or Vestspitsbergen, also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway.
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Subsidy
A subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy.
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Surname
A surname, family name, or last name is the portion of a personal name that indicates a person's family (or tribe or community, depending on the culture).
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Svalbard
Svalbard (prior to 1925 known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen, still the name of its largest island) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Tall Ships' Races
The Tall Ships' Races are races for sail training "tall ships" (sailing ships).
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Terschelling
Terschelling (Skylge; Terschelling dialect: Schylge) is a municipality and an island in the northern Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands.
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Texel
Texel is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,641 in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.
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The Hague
The Hague (Den Haag,, short for 's-Gravenhage) is a city on the western coast of the Netherlands and the capital of the province of South Holland.
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Tromsø
Tromsø (Romsa; Tromssa; Tromssa) is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway.
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Underwater diving
Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.
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University of Groningen
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.
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Vaygach Island
Vaygach Island (Vajgač) is an island in the Arctic Sea between the Pechora Sea and the Kara Sea.
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Walrus
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for scientific research and their usable products like meat, oil and blubber.
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References
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