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Kong Karls Land

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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	Svalbard Map from: MapQuest.com; 9/16/1998; 198 words ; ...Eriksenstretet Greenland Sea Halvmneya Hopen Hornsund Isfjorden Kong Karls Land Kongsya Kvitya Longyearbyen Lgya Moffen Nordaustlandet Nordkapp Ny-Alesund Olgastretet Prins Karls Forland Repyane Spitsbergen Storfjorden Storya Svenskya...
	This I-Day, Tricolour to flutter in Arctic breeze News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 7/30/2007; 668 words ; ...between Norway and the North Pole. Svalbard consists of Spitsbergen, Nordaustlandet, Barentsoya, Edgeoya, Kong Karls Land, Prins Karls Forland and Bjornoya island (Bear Island)." "About 60 pc of Svalbard is glacier-covered, with many...
	Disneynature earth Fun Facts. Business Wire; 2/4/2009; 700+ words ; ...overheating. Polar bears are the largest land predator in the world. Males can...The polar bears were filmed on Kong Karls Land, a group of islands between the...Ocean. Part of Norway, it is a land where the midnight sun lasts from...
	Screen giants: the scenery-chewing stars of Earth, the year's biggest film Exclusive pictures from most expensive documentary ever show plight of animals struggling for survival in face of global warming Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...ice caps on the Norwegian island of Kong Karls Land, home to the world's largest concentration...bear swimming away from sight of land or ice, desperately looking for an island to land and rest on." Thousands of miles...
	Hi, I'm the chap next door and I'd like to have you for dinner. Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/31/2006; 580 words ; ...mildly,' said Allan, 55. 'Polar bears are the biggest land predators in the world and if they are hungry, they...was on the menu elsewhere. The encounter happened in Kong Karls Land, an archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic which had not...
	Polarfahrer: IM Banne Der Arktis [Polar Traveller: Under the Spell of the Arctic].(Book review) Magazine article from: Arctic; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...hours before Andree and his companions were forced to land on the ice and abandon the balloon. In 1898 Lerner headed...cruised extensively around the archipelago and charted Kong Karls Land accurately for the first time. No traces of Andree were...
	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...
	Government budget for 2007;The High North. M2 Presswire; 10/9/2006; 700+ words ; ...is also being followed up by surveys of the seabed and resources. Seismic data will also be collected southeast of Kong Karls Land off Svalbard. Efforts to reduce the risk of maritime accidents and discharges to the marine environment, and strengthen...
	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...