Svalbard is a region the North of Lyra Belacqua's World. The Armoured Bears have their palace here. Lord Asriel was imprisoned in Svalbard in the palace of the ice bears, under Iofur Raknison.

Creatures that live here are: Samoyeds, Tartars, Cliff Ghasts and Skraelings.

Svalbard is also the name of a real location north of the country Norway (which lives in Scandanavia in Europe), and it lies near the North Pole together with a couple of other isles. Its a group of isles itself.