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The Place-names of Svalbard

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Brian Roberts
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In the following notes an attempt has been made to summarise the main facts which anyone dealing with the literature and cartography of Svalbard would require to know in order to give a correct rendering of the place-names and to understand the changes in form which have taken place. The writer wishes to express his grateful thanks to Professor A. Sommerfelt for much assistance in connection with the linguistic aspects of the subject, and to Dr Anders K. Orvin, of the Norsk Polarinstitutt, Oslo, who kindly checked the whole manuscript.

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Polar Record , Volume 5 , Issue 35-36 , December 1948 , pp. 172 - 184
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1948

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page 174 note 1 See p. 181.

page 175 note 1 Following the terminology suggested by Aurousseau, M., Geographical Journal, Vol. 100, 1942, p. 177CrossRefGoogle Scholar —“A geographical name may have a generic part, usually a common noun, e.g. Cape; and a specific part, which may be a proper or common noun, an adjective, or a phrase, e.g. of Good Hope.”

page 182 note 1 The writer is indebted to Cdr. Alun Jones, R.N., Superintendent of Sailing Directions, for checking the above notes on the policy of the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty.