Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Svalbard
Detourmap lists 94 places in Svalbard, Norway, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Bear Island. 61 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 94
- Oldest
- Newtontoppen 400 million years ago
- Little known
- 61 of 94
- Share of Norway
- 9%
Svalbard 94
All 94, best known first.
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8.Newtontoppen
Nature · 4000000th century BC · Notable
Largest and highest mountain in Svalbard, Norway
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12.Indre Wijdefjorden National Park
Nature · 21st century · Notable
National park in the group of islands Spitsbergen, Norway
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13.Nordre Isfjorden National Park
Nature · 21st century · Notable
Protected area in Norway (Naturbase code: VV00002584)
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15.Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
Protected area in Norway (Naturbase code: VV00002573)
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29.Platåberget
Nature · Notable
Mountain in Nordenskiöld Land on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway
Elsewhere in Norway
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Svalbard?
Bear Island. Southernmost island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Svalbard?
94: 89 nature & landscapes and 5 archaeological & historic sites. 61 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Svalbard?
Newtontoppen, dated to 400 million years ago. 19 of the 94 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Svalbard here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Svalbard if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Svalbard is a first-level division of Norway, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.