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Longyearbyen is a Norwegian radio coast station on Svalbard.

Longyearbyen Longyearbyen is situated on the radio, on Kapp Linné, the north-western tip of the peninsula Nordenskiöld Land. The radio station operates today automated and remotely controlled from Bodø Radio. In 2006, Telenor sold the radio station to the Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani. From 1 January 2008, the building is leased to the Basecamp Spitsbergen and rented the premises to stay to tourists. The radio station is supplied by a diesel - generator of electricity.

Longyearbyen radio and a lighthouse was built before the Second World War by the Soviet Union to report the sometimes difficult ice and weather conditions of navigation. A Soviet ship sinking in the 1930s was the reason. During the evacuation of Svalbard in 1941 the radio station was demolished or burned down. After the war, the radio station was rebuilt on the same site. In the International Geophysical Year in 1957/58 the station was extended with a new building with a generator room.

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Longyearbyen radio on 2 May 2007

78.05222222222213.601111111111Koordinaten: 78 ° 3 ' N, 13 ° 36' O

• Coast station
• Svalbard