Many a time I have sat up all night to take notes on the , which, in this part of the world, commence to sing considerably earlier than their English… - Seton Gordon

... is the home of rare s, one of which, , is found nowhere else in Britain. Although rare birds are protected by , rare plants have no protection afforded them, perhaps because such protection would be impossible to enforce.

Beyond , we passed the mouth of Glen Beg, where the last of the great had his farm.

There is no native population in , for no s, es, or even s, have ever settled there. Three hundred years ago the bays and seas of West Spitsbergen were a favourite whale-fishing ground to which most of the seafaring nations of Europe sent fleets of s, but the " " is long extinct in Spitsbergen waters, and the whaling industry has now disappeared. Spitsbergen was discovered by the Dutch in 1596; whales were found by in 1607, and by 1620 the whale-hunting was at its height.