Talk:Longyearbyen

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Contents 1 Origins of the name 2 Population 3 Coat of arms 4 Airport passenger numbers

[edit] Origins of the name

So...what does Longyearbyen mean? My guess is "Town of the Long Year", but the article says it was named after John Longyear, which is English...so is it "The Longyear Town"? Does anyone know? Tomer ^TALK 21:39, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Yes indeed. The Longyear guy founded the place, the first years it was called "Longyear City". Then Spitsbergen became norwegian and they changed "City" to the norwegian word "Byen".

"byen" means "the town". In Norwegian, the definite article goes at the end. "en by" = "a town", "byen = the town".

Strictly speaking, byen, is the city/town. In Norwgian it can mean either.

[edit] Population

I changed the first line to read "population of about 1900" from 1700 based on the Gov. of the Islands official website. rhmoore 08:49, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coat of arms

Perhaps the Longyearbyen lokalstyre (local government) coat of arms should be added together with an infobox? -- Nidator 11:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Airport passenger numbers

90,000 passengers in a year? Is there a source for this? It seems very high for such a small population. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.99.59 (talk) 13:49, 26 February 2008 (UTC)