Archipelago Gallery

Spitsbergen, Norway - Adventfjorden (Advent Bay)

Spitsbergen, Norway - Adventfjorden (Advent Bay). Depicted here is the former mining camp of Longyearbyen (located on its southwestern shore). Known as Longyear City until 1926, the town was established by and named after John Munro Longyear, whose Arctic Coal Company started coal mining operations in 1906 (not too long before this card was published). Operations were taken over by Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani (SNSK) in 1916, which still conducts mining. Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Tour of the Colonies - Water, Carnival, Malta

Tour of the Colonies - Water, Carnival, Malta - Ship in Harbour -many tiny ships surrounded by large Animal figures. Part of Box 246 Boswell collection - Tour of the Colonies. Malta officially the Republic of Malta (Maltese: Repubblika ta Malta), is a Southern European island country comprising an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies 80 km (50 mi) south of Italy, 284 km (176 mi) east of Tunisia, and 333 km (207 mi) north of Libya.S Date: circa 1900

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

Heligoland Island

Heligoland - a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1,650) are located in the Heligoland Bight (part of the German Bight) in the southeastern corner of the North Sea. In addition to German, the local population, who are ethnic Frisians, speak the Heligolandic dialect of the North Frisian language called Halunder. Heligoland was formerly called Heyligeland, or holy land, possibly due to the island's long association with the god Forseti

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection