Svalbard and Jan Mayen

... order to ensure that I got a window seat. The Lonely Planet describes the descent to Longyearbyen, the main settlement in Svalbard, as "otherworldly" provided the weather's clear. Unfortunately it was quite cloudy for me, but there were enough gaps to get ...

A travel blog entry from Svalbard and Jan Mayen by rich
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... brief details of our trip from 20.7-15.8.2008 to svalbard spitsbergen, 1. day plane: vienna - munich - oslo - longyearbyen 2. day resting and organizational matters 3. day boattravel to the ghosttown pyramiden 4.-8. day hikes around pyramiden 9. day ...

A very nice seagull...standing on the balcony of our Norwegian and Danish friends, Hilde and Sigve. They even liked to eat from their hands (what Bea checked personally).

... (1700 inhabitants), but its coal mining related activities are decreasing in favour of others as tourism and scientific research (being Svalbard a natural outdoor laboratory to test many important facts as the magnitude of the global climate change). ...