A holiday in the Arctic that’s more than just searching for polar bears - While polar bears are a big tourist draw, the Arctic has a wealth of wildlife to observe and terrains to explore ...

What many people do not know is that they have a cousin that is significantly smaller. The Svalbard Reindeer ... They may not be as famous as their cousins, but they are just as fascinating.

Polar bears outnumber people in Svalbard– about 3,500 compared to 2,500 Lydia Bell stayed at the Radisson Blu Polar, which has an alfresco hot tub The highlight of her trip was a 50-mile ...

How to get there. Most visitors fly via Oslo to Longyearbyen, Svalbard’s largest settlement, which hugs the shore of Spitsbergen island. Because there aren’t many reliable roads, exploration ...

A video has gone viral on TikTok after a woman shared that people living in Svalbard, a cluster of islands close to the North Pole, must leave a month before their due date to give birth.. Cecilia ...

“The whole Svalbard community has been really badly hit by Covid-19 and all the travel restrictions,” says Strom, who has lived in Longyearbyen, the main settlement here, for several years.

Beyond being beautiful, Svalbard’s arctic landscape is useful. It’s home to perhaps the most important freezer in the world, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which holds more than 890,000 ...