Tunheim
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Tunheim is an abandoned coal mining village on Bear Island, Svalbard, Norway. It lies in the northeast[1] of the Island, a few kilometers east of the Bjørnøya Radio Station, and directly adjacent to Kapp Bergersen. To its south is Miseryfjellet, the tallest mountain on Bear Island.[2][3][4]
Coal mining activities were run by the Stavanger company and were at their height around 1915–1925[1] and 182 people lived in the village's 25 houses, but then the mining was given up as unprofitable.[1][5]
A radio station was built in 1919 and a meteorological station in 1923, operated by the Geophysical Institute in Tromsø.[1][6] The stations were destroyed by the Allies in 1941 during WWII to prevent the Germans from using them,[7][1] and the town was evacuated.[1]
