Spitsbergen, Arctic

How to get there Scandinavian Airlines has flights to Longyearbyen from Oslo and Tromso several days a week. Flights can be booked at www.sas.no or www.braathens.no, with possible connections from other European cities. There is also a boat departing Tromsø once a week in summer, with a journey time of two or three days. Where [...]

Holiday on ice

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The Arctic tern is the only bird that breeds in the Arctic and then migrates to Antarctica for the northern winter, flying roughly 35,000 kilometres per year. The journey begins in the tundra and rocky landscapes of the frozen north, the hunting ground of the mighty polar bear, and ends in the [...]

Kayaking in the Arctic

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The ice cliffs gleamed platinum blue and towered above us as high as a 50-storey skyscraper. We floated in our kayaks, cold even in our drysuits but enthralled. Every few minutes, the glacier calved, sending newborn icebergs out into the fjord. A loud crack and a deep rumble, then a huge sheet [...]

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