KINGS OF THE NORTH
Sep 23, 2020
4 minutes
BY AVRIL MAIR.
The colourful houses of Longyearbyen, a small coal-mining town on Spitsbergen Island.
A polar bear and her cub on an ice floe. The sleek interior of Isfjord Radio, a hotel located at the edge of Svalbard’s west coast
Svalbard is the most remote of the Arctic Circle’s wildernesses, a frozen archipelago between Greenland and Russia where polar bears outnumber residents. It is tourism’s final frontier and a place at the limits of human endurance; to journey here is to follow in the footsteps of Roald Amundsen and other legendary explorers, who saw a stark, dangerous beauty in this unforgiving landscape of ice.
Svalbard is also a haunted
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