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Norway’s own official descriptions do not say that it has established a full exclusive economic zone around Svalbard.

• The Norwegian government states that in 1977 it established a fisheries protection zone around Svalbard.
• Kartverket likewise says Svalbard has a fiskevernsone (fisheries protection zone), created under the Economic Zone Act, and specifically notes that this zone was set up for conserving living marine resources and regulating fishing and hunting.
• A Norwegian government white paper also explains that Norway chose in 1977 to establish “a fisheries protection zone rather than a full economic zone.”

So describing Norway as claiming an EEZ around Svalbard is inaccurate in the context of the zone it actually established.

Statistics Norway’s Population of Svalbard tables separate the Norwegian settlements from the other inhabited settlements.

• Table 1 gives 2,512 for Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund only.
• Table 3 gives the full settlement picture for 1st half year 2026: 1,648 residents in Longyearbyen/Ny-Ålesund who are registered on the mainland, 864 from abroad in Longyearbyen/Ny-Ålesund, 392 in Barentsburg and Pyramiden, and 10 in Hornsund.

Adding the settlement totals gives 2,914, not 2,512. So the number shown in the infobox matches only Longyearbyen + Ny-Ålesund, not Svalbard as a whole.

The Norwegian Mapping Authority’s current land-area page lists Svalbard (including Bjørnøya) at 61,022 km². The Norwegian government’s 2023–2024 Svalbard white paper uses the same figure: “With a land area covering 61,022 km²”.

That directly contradicts the infobox total of 62,045 km².

Current official sources do not support the claim that Svalbard has 23 nature reserves.

• The Governor of Svalbard’s protected-areas page says: “In Svalbard, there are seven national parks, 21 nature reserves and one geotope protected area.”
• Norwegian environmental authorities’ Svalbard protected-areas material describes the archipelago’s protected areas as 7 national parks, 6 nature reserves, 15 bird sanctuaries and 1 protected geotope.

Under either official breakdown, the statement “23 nature reserves” is incorrect.

Official Norwegian sources distinguish between Norway’s mainland EEZ and the zone established around Svalbard.

• The Norwegian government’s Arctic policy says Norway established a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone off the mainland coast in 1976, but that “in 1977 ... a fisheries protection zone was established around Svalbard.”
• Kartverket (the Norwegian Mapping Authority) likewise says that, under the Economic Zone Act, Norway created “a fisheries zone at Jan Mayen and a fisheries protection zone at Svalbard”, and notes that the Svalbard zone was created to conserve living marine resources and regulate fishing and hunting.

So the 1977 Svalbard zone was not a full EEZ; it was a fisheries protection zone.

The February 2024 regulatory change did not impose a universal 200-passenger cap for all shipping in Svalbard.

Official government information says the change was “a limit of 200 passengers on board ships in all protected areas.” The Governor of Svalbard likewise explains that “in the national parks, a maximum number of 200 passengers has been imposed on boats calling at sea” and refers to landing rules in protected areas.

So the sentence is too broad as written: the cap applies to protected areas, not to every ship everywhere in Svalbard.