Svalbard

Country number:
21
Territory number:
119
"Lonely? I don’t know. They tell me this is cold. I don’t know what cold is, because I don’t freeze. So I don’t know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary."
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

Tales from Svalbard

Svalbard - On the Trail of the Polar Bear

The signs say I’m at 78 degrees latitude north. That’s only 12 degrees and about 5,000 miles from the North Pole itself. I...
The signs say I’m at 78 degrees latitude north. That’s only 12 degrees and about 5,000 miles from the North Pole itself. I don’t know much more about Svalbard except there are several islands.
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