TheOcean Explorer is in difficulty in a very rarely visited area, where rescue operations are no easy task. Photo: Air Force / Arctic Command Update on Ocean Explorer 14/09/2023: the vessel has been free since this morning, with the help of the trawler Tarajoq, after...
Expedition vessel “Mikhail Somov” has been in operation since 1975 and is capable of breaking ice up to 70 centimeters. (Photo: Yuri Dvornikov) Reports emerged on July 25 that the research vessel “Mikhail Somov” ran aground near the Franz Josef...
Archive photo: Polar bear mothers are currently coming out of their winter quarters and searching for food in Svalbard’s fjords. They have their cubs with them. Image: Michael Wenger UPDATE The first results of the investigations by the authorities have shown...
A tragic accident shakes the 3,000-people village of Aasiaat. (Photo: Visit-Greenland) Sled dogs have bitten to death a six-year-old boy in the West Greenlandic town of Aasiaat. The dogs had been chained at the city’s ski club, police said Monday night. A friend...
The incident occurred near Sveasletta, about 46 kilometers northwest of Longyearbyen. Map: Michael Wenger / Google Earth Seeing polar bears is the highlight and dream of most visitors to the Svalbard archipelago. But also experiencing nature and spending a night in...
