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The exhibition 'Svalbard - Subjectively' shows the beauty and grandeur of the raw Arctic. It is also a remembrance of the academic and artistic activity of Anna Pasek who created and participated in the academic life of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) as a Socrates/Erasmus student. Photographs in the exhibition go far beyond a simple recording of nature - it is an attempt at preserving transient beauty, the passion of exploring and conquering new horizons and a desire to share one's experiences with others. Svalbard was discovered in 1596 by William Barents during an expedition searching for the Northeast Passage to India. Nowadays, Svalbard is a Norwegian province in the Arctic consisting of an archipelago, whose largest island is West Spitsbergen (Vestspitsbergen), and several other islands not included in the archipelago (e.g. Bear Island - Bjornoya) between 71°-81° N and 10°-35° E, 800 km north from Norway and 1100 km from the North Pole. The archipelago is surrounded by the Greenland Sea in the west, the Barents Sea in the east, and the North Polar Basin in the north. About 60% of the surface of Spitsbergen is covered by glaciers and the remaining part by mountains and littoral lowlands. Svalbard has no native population, existing settlements were established in connection with mining for minerals, fishing, scientific research and tourist exploration. Svalbard's largest settlement is Longyearbyen, considered to be the unofficial capital. It is the administrative centre with a port, governor's seat and the University Centre. Other permanently inhabited settlements are Barentsburg, Sveagruva, the Norwegian research station at Ny-Alesund (New Alesund) and the polar station of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the White Bear Bay (Isbjornhamna) in the Hornsund fjord. The exhibition has already been shown in:
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