A Twin Otter operated by Kenn Borek Air at the South Pole. (Photo: Zane Ziebell, USAP/NSF, CC BY-SA 4.0) One of the most versatile aircraft in the world, the Twin Otter is capable of operating in the harshest of conditions. Canadian aircraft manufacturer de Havilland...
On Sunday, March 12, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie were in Svalbard as Top Gun: Maverick was up for the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Sound for which it won a statuette. Image: Michael Wenger...
Whale Cove is on the western shore of Hudson Bay (Map: Google Maps) Canada’s government has announced that it will refurbish the gravel runway at the airport in the hamlet of Whale Cove, as part of an on-going billion-dollar plan to keep the country’s...
The 2,400 inhabitants of Longyearbyen and the thousands of tourists depend on regular flights to get to the Norwegian mainland quickly. But for a week now, almost nothing has been possible due to a pilots’ strike at SAS. Image: Michael Wenger Svalbard has in...
