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Spitsbergen was discovered in 1596 by Willem Barentz on his journey to find the North East Passage.16 years later the European greatest seafaring nations started whaling on a large scale near Spitsbergen.Europe needed oil and used the blubber.By the end of the 18th Century whaling was all over.The stocks of Greenland rightwhale east and west of Greenland suffered a sad and fateful breakdown.Years of intense whaling had almost caused the extinction of the whale.