Name: Names on Svalbard
Brand: Tapir Academic Press (N)
SKU: 9788251920117
Price: 22.5 GBP
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Names on Svalbard

By (author): Eli Johanne Ellingsve

Published by Tapir Academic Press (N)

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£22.50

Published: 04-May-2005
ISBN: 9788251920117

Hardback
186 Pages
colour photos & fold-out map

Subjects:
Place names & gazetteers
Social & cultural history
Norway

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The names on Svalbard are a reminder of how many different nationalities that have visited and lived on the archipelago during the centuries. These names are artefacts that succinctly represent Svalbard's unique position in terms of economic and political history.

Eli Johanne Ellingsve is a place names researcher, adviser to the Norwegian Language Council on place names and an editor of Norsk Ordbok (Dictionary of Norwegian). In Names on Svalbard she comments on the etymology of about 460 place names on Svalbard. The book also has a map indicating the location of the names.