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Svalbard
POP 2481 / HIGHEST ELEV 1713M
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Why Go?
Svalbard is the Arctic North as you always dreamed it existed. This wondrous archipelago
is a land of dramatic snow-drowned peaks and glaciers, of vast icefields and forbidding ice-
bergs, an elemental place where the seemingly endless Arctic night and the perpetual sun-
light of summer carry a deeper kind of magic. One of Europe's last great wildernesses, this
is also the domain of more polar bears than people, a terrain rich in epic legends of polar
exploration.
Svalbard's main settlement and entry point, Longyearbyen, is merely a taste of what lies
beyond and the possibilities for exploring further are endless: boat trips, glacier hikes and
expeditionsbysnowmobileorledbyateamofhuskies.Whicheveryouchoose,cominghere
is like crossing some remote frontier of the mind: Svalbard is as close as most mortals can
get to the North Pole and still capture its spirit.