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Kong Karls Land or King Charles Land, island group, 128 sq mi (332 sq km), in the Barents Sea, part of the Norwegian possession of Svalbard, W of Spitsbergen. It includes Kongsøya, Svenskøya, and Abeløya islands.

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	Travel just a click of the remote away. Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 2/26/2007; 700+ words ; Byline: Alfred Borcover In the Arctic wilderness of Kong Karls Land, east of Spitsbergen, Norway, a polar bear slowly emerges from her winter's slumber, poking first her head and then her lumbering...
	Programmer's Page with Chad Heiges and Seth Arenstein. Newspaper article from: CableFAX; 1/26/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...world's coldest places, told critics how he obtained those shots. Allan and an assistant camped for five weeks on Kong Karls Land, small islands in the Norwegian Arctic. It was winter and the living wasn't easy. Making it harder was Norway...
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	Getting To Know The Animal Families Of 'Earth' Transcript from: NPR Fresh Air; 9/3/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...certain telltale signs that give away the presence of a den, and in the case of these polar bears that were filmed in Kong Karls Land in Northern Norway, part of an archipelago off Northern Norway, there's a tiny little dimple, tiny little dimple...
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