Grumant
Grumant is a former Soviet company town in Svalbard, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: KjetilK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Dwelling
- Description: settlement in Svalbard municipality, Norway
- Also known as: “Grumant City”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colesbukta.
Colesbukta
Hamlet
Photo: Zitronenpresse, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Colesbukta is a bay at the southern side of Isfjorden, in Nordenskiöld Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The bay is about 4.5 kilometers wide. A railway for coal transport was earlier operated between Grumantbyen and shipment facilities in Colesbukta. Colesbukta is situated 7 km south of Grumant.
Grumant
- Categories: human settlement, locality, residential building, and building
- Location: Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
78.17597° or 78° 10′ 34″ northLongitude
15.11302° or 15° 6′ 47″ eastInception
1912Open location code
CFCQ54G7+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 273482472OpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwelling
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Grumant” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جرومانت”
- Bulgarian: “Грумант”
- Catalan: “Grumant”
- Catalan: “Grúmant”
- Chinese: “古曼特”
- Danish: “Grumantbyen”
- Dutch: “Groemant”
- French: “Grumantbyen”
- German: “Grumant”
- Irish: “Grumant”
- Italian: “Grumantbyen”
- Japanese: “グルマント”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grumantbyen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grumantbyen”
- Norwegian: “Grumantbyen”
- Russian: “Грумант”
- Spanish: “Grumant”
- Swedish: “Grumantbyen”
- Ukrainian: “Грумант”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Grumant”. Photo: KjetilK, CC BY-SA 3.0.