!!!Svalbard: Geography ||Location|Northern Europe, islands between the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, and Norwegian Sea, north of Norway ||Geographic Coordinates|78 00 N, 20 00 E[{GoogleMap location='78.0,20.0' zoom='4'}] ||Land boundaries|0 km ||Coastline|3,587 km ||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Arctic Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Newtontoppen 1,717 m ||Highest Mountains| ||Terrain|wild, rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered; west coast clear of ice about one-half of the year; fjords along west and north coasts ||Natural Hazards|ice floes often block the entrance to Bellsund (a transit point for coal export) on the west coast and occasionally make parts of the northeastern coast inaccessible to maritime traffic ||Natural Resource|coal, iron ore, copper, zinc, phosphate, wildlife, fish ||Land Use|''arable land: ''0%\\''permanent crops: ''0%\\''other: ''100% (no trees; the only bushes are crowberry and cloudberry) (2011) ||Climate|arctic, tempered by warm North Atlantic Current; cool summers, cold winters; North Atlantic Current flows along west and north coasts of Spitsbergen, keeping water open and navigable most of the year ||Irrigated Land|NA ||Renewable Water Resources|NA ||Environment_CurrentIssues|NA ||Environment - international agreements|NA ||Large Cities| ||Geography-note|northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway; consists of nine main islands; glaciers and snowfields cover 60% of the total area; Spitsbergen Island is the site of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed repository established by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Norwegian Government