There are no roads outside of the settlements of Longyearbyen,
Barentsburg and Ny-Alesund.
Across the Gronfjorden, black smoke forms an incongruous cloud above
Barentsburg, a Russian mining town with 350 inhabitants, mainly from the Ukraine.
| For more information on the destination, go to visitnorway.com three weeks into his job at the Hotel
Barentsburg.
Artem, an optimistic 20-something from the motherland, is three weeks into his job at the Hotel
Barentsburg.
The helicopterwas on its way from the abandoned Pyramiden settlement to the coal mining port of
Barentsburg, but was later confirmed to have gone down in the ocean a few kilometres from its destination.
The helicopter was on its way from the abandoned Pyramiden settlement to the coal mining port of
Barentsburg. Norway has sovereignty over Svalbard, but Russia has a small coal-mining community in
Barentsburg.
According to the report, the helicopter was en route from
Barentsburg to a Russian settlement known as the Pyramid.
Rogozin said bad weather prompted his unannounced stop-over, but he easily could have claimed, as head of the State Commission for Arctic Development, that he wanted to visit the historical Russian mining community at
Barentsburg, (8) not that Russia conceded he needed any reason to visit.
TYNE SHIPPING MOVEMENTS Arrivals Date/Time Name From To 0108 0830 Novaya Zemlya
Barentsburg Anchorage 0108 0845 Princess Seaways Ijmuiden/ Velsen RoRo 3 0108 1159 World Spirit Zeebrugge WHP 0208 0700 Boudicca Seaward Northumbrian Quay 0208 0845 King Seaways RoRo 3 Ijmuiden/ Velsen 0208 1900 BG Ireland Felixstowe Cont Term Sailings Date/Time Name From To 0108 0800 City of Amsterdam Seaward RoRo 4 Zeebrugge 0108 0900 HMS Tyne Northumbrian Quay 0108 1700 Princess Seaways Seaward RoRo 3 Ijmuiden/ Velsen 0208 1630 Boudicca Northumbrian Quauy 0208 1700 King Seaways RoRo 3 Ijmuiden/ Velsen 0308 0600 BG Ireland Cont Term Teesport