UPDATE 03/08/20: In addition to the 36 crew members, 5 passengers have also been tested positive for COVID-19. Hurtigruten has now announced that it will suspend all expedition cruises with the ships “Roald Amundsen”, “Fritjof Nansen” and...
The company Store Norske’s mine 7 is the only Norwegian coal mine still active on Svalbard. Every year it delivers around 30,000 tonnes of coal to Longyearbyen and another 80,000 to Europe. Photo: Michael Wenger Longyearbyen, the capital of Svalbard, has grown...
At the trapper station Farmhamna on the west coast of Svalbard, the bear was chased off by the multiple use of flares. But the animal’s visits lasted several days and hardly let the inhabitants sleep. Photo: Farmhamna Svalbard is polar bear land. Around the...
Tourists wearing warm clothes were wrong. Instead of using them, they traveled in short sleeves and enjoyed the sun. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) Temperatures on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, about halfway between the mainland and the North Pole, reached a record...
Just in time for the beginning of summer on Svalbard (when the snow spike on the Operafjellet dissolves), it was announced that in addition to the Nordic countries (apart from Sweden), the Schengen and EU states will now be allowed back in. However, there are certain...