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3Longyearbyen, locally called "The Longyear Town", is the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 2,500 and the largest inhabited area of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, owned by Norway. The settlement is the seat of the Governor of Svalbard, the Norwegian government in exercising its sovereignty over the Svalbard. The largest island of the archipelago is Spitsbergen, followed in size by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya, furthermore the largest settlement is just Longyearbyen; the place stretches along the foot of the left bank of the Longyear Valley and on the shore of Adventfjorden, the short estuary leading into Isfjorden on the west coast of Spitsbergen, the island's broadest inlet. Known as Longyear City until 1926, the town was established by and named after American John Munro Longyear, whose Arctic Coal Company started coal-mining there in 1906. Meanwhile, the town has seen a large increase in tourism and research. This includes the arrival of institutions such as the University Centre in Svalbard, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Svalbard Satellite Station.
Svalbard's climate is a polar tundra climate tempered by the North Atlantic Current. The west coast of Svalbard is the warmest and wettest part of the archipelago. Longyearbyen generally has lower humidity than other settlements within the Arctic Circle. The settlement experiences midnight sun from between 18 April and 23 August (127 days), polar night from 27 October to 15 February (111 days) and civil polar night from 13 November to 29 January. However, due to shading from mountains, the sun is not visible in Longyearbyen until around 8 March. Snow typically covers the town from November to March. Svalbard and Longyearbyen are among the places in the world that have warmed fastest in the latest decades. With the sea surface temperatures warming, ice formation takes longer in the surrounding waters and thus especially early winter under the polar night warms the fastest due to the shorter ice season.
In this case, we managed to avoid the recurring snowstorms thanks to the favorable period of may.
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