Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the ...

The history of Svalbard lies right on the surface – whalers graves, blubber ovens and abandoned Russian mining towns give evidence of people past. Whaling was once a lucrative industry of the ...

My 8 day Svalbard Line South itinerary started with the fascinating town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard and ended in popular Bergen. In between, we stopped at tiny villages like Torsken on the ...

Several settlements on Svalbard, where around 2,500 people live, are populated by Russians, dating back to the Soviet era, who mostly live in the second-largest town of Barentsburg. The island is also ...