Tunheim

For people named Tunheim, see Tunheim (surname).

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]