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[[File:Smeerenburg.jpg|thumb|Map showing the location of Smeerenburg on the map of Spitsbergen. © University Museum of Bergen]]
[[File:Cornelis de Man 1639_Smeerenburg.jpg|thumb|frame|right|<small>Rendering whale oil at Smeerenburg, painted by Cornelis de Man in 1639.</small>]]
[[File:Cornelis de Man 1639_Smeerenburg.jpg|thumb|frame|right|<small>Rendering whale oil at Smeerenburg, painted by Cornelis de Man in 1639.</small>]]



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File:Smeerenburg.jpg
Map showing the location of Smeerenburg on the map of Spitsbergen. © University Museum of Bergen
Rendering whale oil at Smeerenburg, painted by Cornelis de Man in 1639.


Smeerenburg • Seventeenth century Dutch whaling settlement on Amsterdam Island, Spitsbergen. The name is composed of the Dutch words smeer (fat, oil, blubber) and burg (town), and refers to the rendering of whale oil by boiling blubber. The site was successively occupied by Dutch and Danish whalers.

Country
Norway
County/ Region
  • Troms og Finnmark
  • Nordland
  • Trøndelag
  • Møre og Romsdal
  • Vestland
  • Rogaland
  • Agder
  • Vestfold og Telemark
First use

Associated with
Whales
Whaling