Weather Horoscopes E-mail Visit our sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Almanac Asian Am. The capital is Longyearbyen. It came under Norwegian administration in 1925.
Coal mining is major economic activity.
There is also some trapping of seal, polar bear, fox, and walrus. It is uninhabited. Queen Maud Land, a section of Antarctica, came under Norwegian administration in 1939.