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John Munro Longyear (1850-1922), who was the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, now Svalbard, from 1905 to 1916. Longyearbyen - the world's northernmost settlement and largest inhabited area of the Svalbard archipelago - is named after him.
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Company, M. A. (2022, January 08). John Munro Longyear. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15093/john-munro-longyear/
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Company, Michigan Art. "John Munro Longyear." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified January 08, 2022. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15093/john-munro-longyear/.
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Company, Michigan Art. "John Munro Longyear." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 08 Jan 2022. Web. 29 Mar 2023.
