Spitz bergen

(spits'bārg-gn,) a cluster of islands in the Arctic Ocean, and within the Polar Circle, being the northernmost land yet known to exist. They are situate bet. N. Lat. 76° 30′-80° 40′, E. Lon. 90-220, 200 miles N. of the extreme point of the Norwegian coast. Their surface is covered with glaciers and eternal snows, and they are considered as belonging to Ru ia. These islands were discovered by Barentz, a Dutch navigator, in 1596, and they are sometimes touched at by whaling ve els. [s. 848]