Europe's Most Northerly Town?

According to Wikipedia, Hammerfest is "the northernmost town in the world with more than 10,000 inhabitants." (My italics.) The world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000 is Longyearbyen (2,368 inhabitants in 2019), on the island of Svalbard, a.k.a. Spitsbergen.

Here it gets complicated, because "While part of the Kingdom of Norway since 1925, Svalbard is not part of geographical Norway". Does this mean it's not part of Europe?

News24 doesn't think so: "Spitsbergen lies halfway between Norway's mainland and the North Pole, and the largest settlement on the archipelago is Longyearbyen. It's home to just over 2 000 people, and no other town with more than a thousand people lies further north." This doesn't place it in Europe, but the headline on the same page does: "This is Europe's northernmost town where you have to be wary of polar bears".

So Longyearben is in Europe. But is it in Norway?

As part of a complicated exposition on the administrative status of Longyearbyen, Wikipedia concludes that "The treaty [i.e. the Svalbard Treaty of 1920] has resulted in Longyearbyen being a demilitarized zone and it is not part of the European Economic Area nor of the Schengen Area like the rest of Norway."

The phrase "the rest of Norway" gives us what I'm prepared to state as our final answer: yes, Longyearbyen is in Norway (according to Wikipedia).

So, going back to the MQL question: I'm happy to agree that Europe's most northerly town is in Norway. Just that it may be Longyearbyen and not Hammerfest.