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Svalbard
Pop 2642 / Highest Elev 1713m
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
icebergs, an elemental place where the seemingly endless Arctic night and the perpetual
sunlight 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 po-
lar exploration.
Svalbard's main settlement and entry point, Longyearbyen, is merely a taste of what lies
beyond and the possibilities for exploring further are many: boat trips, glacier hikes, and
expeditions by snowmobile or led by a team of huskies. Whichever you choose, coming
here 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.
 
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