Grumant Грумант | |
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 Settlement ruins (2007) | |
  Grumant Location in western Svalbard | |
| Coordinates:78°10′40″N15°06′45″E / 78.17778°N 15.11250°E /78.17778; 15.11250 | |
| Country | Norway |
| Syssel | Svalbard |
| island | Spitsbergen |
| Population (1961) | |
• Total | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
Grumant (Russian:Грумант) is a formerSovietcompany town inSvalbard, Norway, established in 1912 and abandoned in 1965. The population—including Coles Bay, which served the settlement's port—peaked at 1,106 in 1951. The name Grumant is ofPomory origin, and is also used to refer to the whole of theSvalbard archipelago. It may be a corruption of Greenland, with which the land was confused.[1]
Grumant is onSpitsbergen, the largest of the Svalbard archipelago's islands, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west-southwest ofLongyearbyen, the administrative centre.
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