# Longyear Valley

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The **Longyear Valley**[1][2][3] (Norwegian: *Longyeardalen*) is a valley and [ravine](/source/Ravine) in [Svalbard](/source/Svalbard). It slightly winds 40 kilometres (25 mi) [WNW](/source/Boxing_the_compass) ending in [Adventfjorden](/source/Adventfjorden), facing west, the broadest inlet of [Spitsbergen](/source/Spitsbergen), the main landmass. It has a few [wind gaps](/source/Wind_gap) to the south and north-east over small glaciers, under which small streams form. It is between mountains [Platåberget](/source/Plat%C3%A5berget) and [Gruvefjellet](/source/Gruvefjellet). The town of [Longyearbyen](/source/Longyearbyen) is at its foot, which is named for the American industrialist [John Munro Longyear](/source/John_Munro_Longyear). The [Longyear River](/source/Longyear_River) is, like all the island's rivers, silted from surrounding glaciers.[4]

## References

1. Capelotti, P. J. 2000. *The Svalbard Archipelago: American Military and Political Geographies of Spitsbergen and Other Norwegian Polar Territories, 1941–1950*. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, p. 32.

1. Remmert, Hermann. 1980. *Arctic Animal Ecology*. Berlin: Springer, p. 16.

1. DePasqual, Seth. 2012. Winning Coal at 78° North: Mining, Contingency and the *Chaîne Opératoire* in Old Longyear City. In: Louwrens Hacquebord (ed.), *Lashipa: History of Large Scale Resource Exploitation in Polar Areras*, pp. 71–82. Groningen: University of Groningen, p. 75.

1. ["Longyeardalen"](https://archive.today/20120710214919/http://miljo.npolar.no/placenames/pages/detaile.asp?placeNameID=48562I). [Norwegian Polar Institute](/source/Norwegian_Polar_Institute). Archived from [the original](http://miljo.npolar.no/placenames/pages/detaile.asp?placeNameID=48562I) on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

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