Grumant

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Coordinates: 78°10′40″N, 15°06′45″E

Two of the houses remaining in Grumant.
Two of the houses remaining in Grumant.

Grumant was a Soviet Russian settlement in Svalbard, Norway, abandoned in 1961. "Grumant" is a Pomor toponym traditionally applied to the whole of Svalbard, and may be a corruption of "Greenland," with which this land was confused.