On Svalbard it is forbidden to bury deceased people, because the permafrost ground will eventually bring up the corpses to the surface. Until 1950 deceased natives were laid to rest in this graveyard below coal mine no. 1. After a group of scientists, who intended to do research on the Spanish influenza of local coalminers disintered corpses and found them to lay close to the surface, funerals on Svalbard ground were prohibited.
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