Ny-Ålesund
in Spitsbergen of Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 78.924 and 11.925 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 78° 55' 25" and E 11° 55' 29"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Krone - NOK
- Spoken languages:
- Norwegian, Russian
- Local electricity:
- 230 V - 50 Hz (plugs: G)
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 3G, 4G
- Local Time: 01:47 PM (Friday)
- Timezone: Arctic/Longyearbyen
- UTC/GMT offset: 1 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 1:00 am and 1:00 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.033 and -176.367 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Ouwenga - References
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- This place on Geonames.org
Discover Ny-Ålesund
Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen (Svalbard) with it's 35 citizens is a town in Svalbard and Jan Mayen about 70 mi (or 113 km) north-west of Longyearbyen, the country's capital city.
Current time in Ny-Ålesund is now 01:47 PM (Friday). The local timezone is named Arctic / Longyearbyen with an UTC offset of 2 hours. Unfortunatly there are no larger airports in the vicinity of this location. The sidebar provides some ideas about how to get here.
When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Longyearbyen, , , and . To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Videos from this area
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Polar bear in Ny-Alesund
Ny-Alesund, Dirigibile Italia Base 07.07.2013 07.50 AM.
Ny-Alesund time-lapse
1 frame every 30 seconds for 12 hours recorded at the Dirigibile Italia base.
onderzoek over kleine poolvosjes op spitsbergen
in Ny-ALesund worden poolvossen bestudeerd.
nick cox about dog sledging
lezing in ny-alesund door Nick Cox, die op noord- en zuidpool met sledehonden heeft gewerkt in ijskoude omstandigheden http://www.arcticstation.nl.
Snow scooter ride from midre Lovénbreen to Ny-Ålesund
This is a video of the snow scooter journey that we repeated did when working on the moraines in front of midre Lovénbreen (near Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard) in April 2009. The journey is from the...
Dog sledding on Svalbard - Isfjorden Rundt
On the trail with the dogs around Isfjorden on Svalbard. A 560 km long trip covered in 17 days from Ny-Ålesund to Ny-Ålesund via Pyramiden, Barentsburg, Longyearbyen, Ymerbukta and the trapper...
A windy day in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard
A windy day Ny-Ålesund (7 April 2009) when I set out Dave Graham to do some ground-penetrating radar work at midre Lovénbreen.
Clearing snow in Ny-Ålesund
This video was taken in April 2009 in Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard)...
Fra aperitif-konsert lørdag 15 juni i Ny Ålesund.
Sangen er skrevet og melodisatt av Iris Thomassen Helseth og er en hyllest til Ny Ålesund. Sang og gitar: Iris. Bare gitar og heldiggris: Geir Mathiassen.
![preview picture of video '[Nils Travels #5] Ny Ålesund'](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wD8l8hFA1L4/mqdefault.jpg "'[Nils Travels #5] Ny Ålesund'")
[Nils Travels #5] Ny Ålesund
Come see the northernmost functional settlement in the world with me : Ny Ålesund!
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Attractions and noteworthy things
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Ny-Ålesund
Ny-Ålesund is one of the four permanent settlements on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. It is located on Brøggerhalvøya and Kongsfjorden. Like the rest of Svalbard, Ny-Ålesund is administered by the Kingdom of Norway. Ny-Ålesund is one of the world's northernmost settlements at {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:78|55|N|11|56|E||| | |name= }}, and is the world's northernmost functional public settlement. It is 107 km away from Longyearbyen.
Arctic Yellow River Station
The Polar Research Institute of China established its Arctic Yellow River Station in Ny-Ålesund, on Svalbard, in 2003. Scientists at the station conducted research into the Aurora Borealis and microbes in the ice-pack, glacier monitoring, atmospheric research.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Ny-Ålesund.
Ny-Ålesund › North-East: Kongsfjorden, Ny-Ålesund (source)
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This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Ню Олесун, נו אלסון, ニーオーレスン, 뉘올레순, Niu Olesiundas, Ny-Aalesund, Ню-Олесунн
