ghost town pyramiden spitsbergen svalbard norway

http://www.embryonal.net/svalbard08

Pyramiden is a modern ghost town on the Island of Spitzbergen, Svalbard. It was founded by a Swedish company but purchased and kept for over 70 years as a coal mining town by the Soviet/Russian Trust Arktikugol, until the town was given up in 1998.

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74° to 81° North, and 10° to 35° East. The archipelago is the northernmost part of Norway. Three islands are populated: Spitsbergen, Bear Island and Hopen.

For many more images and information of our expedition last summer to spitsbergen - svalbard

feel free to visit http://www.embryonal.net/svalbard08

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[PatoStereo]

imagine yourself walking there alone holy shit!!

[freddy813]

I was there in 2006... scary place!

[Keupink]

@sweetypie000 I heard the Russians are there restoring the town now for tourism, though I think making this town into a tourism place is bad too. Leave nature be on the places it still can be! Longyearbayen is enough on Spitsbergen haha

[sweetypie000]

@Keupink yep, very surprised norway has allowed is to just rot - thought they were more environmentally astute

[Keupink]

@sweetypie000 It was Russia who did this....Soviets

[sweetypie000]

how dare man leave this shit just astanding after taking its resources ? Norway needs to jail some mining assholes who did this and the government need to go to jail for letting this happen

[TaufanDermawan]

A life before human's life.