A voyage to Spitzbergen; : containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North; of the Shetland Islands; and of the whale fishery / With an appendix, containing an historical account of the Dutch, English and American whale fisheries ...
Spitzbergen is one ofâ„“an archipelago of islandsâ„“located halfway between Norway and the North Pole that was used as a base for whaling in the 17th and 18th centuries.