Barneo is an annual Arctic research camp operated by the Russian Geographical Society. It has been set up on the pack ice near the geographic North Pole for a month each year from late March or early April since 2002. (Photo: Camp Barneo) What does it look like at the...
In the cemetery, the deceased were buried in normal graves from 1918 to 1950, including seven victims of the Spanish flu. Coffin burials were no longer permitted out of fear that the pathogen might reappear and because the bodies are preserved in the permafrost soil....
Among the properties owned by Hurtigruten Svalbard is the Radisson Blu Polar Spitsbergen, the largest 128-room hotel in Longyearbyen. Hurtigruten had recently modernised and expanded the hotel to meet the growing number of tourists. But that was before COVID. Picture:...
The research aircraft “Polar 6” and “Polar 5” have arrived on Svalbard for the start of the flight campaigns. (Photo: AWI, Esther Horvath) After a five-month suspension due to corona-forced constraints, the two German polar research aircraft...
Remarks: Due to the ongoing investigation, in order to avoid sensational isting and out of consideration for the feelings of the persons concerned, we have refrained from publishing pictures of the accident site or the polar bear and people involved in any way. All...