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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
About PINTOMAP Arctic OceanThe Arctic Ocean, located mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five oceans and the shallowest. Even though the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, oceanographers may call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean seas of the Atlantic Ocean. Nordaustlandet (Europe / Northern Europe / Norway)Nordaustlandet (sometimes translated as North East Land) is the second largest island in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with an area of 14,443 km². As its name suggests, it lies north east of Spitzbergen. Spitsbergen (Europe / Northern Europe / Norway)Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen) is the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, situated in the Arctic Ocean. The island of Spitsbergen covers approximately 39,044 square kilometers (15,075 square miles).. Ny-Ålesund Airport, Hamnerabben}} Ny-Ålesund (Europe / Northern Europe / Norway)Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund") is one of the four permanent settlements on Svalbard. It is located on the Brøgger-peninsula at the Kongsfjorden. SvalRakSvalRak is the name of a launch site for sounding rockets in the neighbourhood of Ny-Ålesund on Spitzbergen at . The launch site SvalRak has been since 1997 in service and very suitable for the launch of rockets for the investigation of the earth's magnetic field. DanskøyaDanskøya is an island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It lies just off the northwest coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the archipelago, near to Magdalenefjorden. WahlenbergfjordWahlenbergfjord, sometimes known in English as Waalenburg Bay, is a fjord on the southwest coast of the Arctic island of Nordaustlandet, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. At 46 kilometers in length, and 15 km wide, it is the fifth longest fjord in the archipelago, and the longest on the island. | ||