Tunheim is an abandoned

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village on Bear Island,

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, Norway. It lies in the northeast of the Island, a few kilometers east of the Bjørnøya Radio Station, & directly adjacent to Kapp Bergersen. Coal mining activities were at their height around 1916–1925 and 182 people lived in the village's 25 houses. A radio station was built in 1919 and a meteorological station in 1923. The stations were destroyed by the

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in 1941 during

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to prevent the Germans from using them, and the town was evacuated.

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Bear Island (Norway) Former populated places in Svalbard {{Svalbard-geo-stub