I know how much I love snow at the north end of the world. (Beautiful Svalbard pictured here.) It’s time to go see what’s happening at the south end. Antarctica, here I come! #meetthenorth #antarcticambassadors #lindbladexpeditions #meetthesouth #ice #landscape #svalbard
Arctic Deeply ventures to Jan Mayen island to meet the 18 people who compose Norway’s most isolated community. Learn more about Siw Landro, who works as the island’s nurse, librarian and everything in between. Siw Landro fell in love, again, when she arrived on Jan Mayen, Norway. Siw has a partner and children back home, but Mr. Beerenberg…
In the 1980s and 1990s, Longyearbyen evolved from a company town, which was expensive to maintain, into a community that also relies on tourism and a university campus. In 2015, the coal company employed almost 500 people on the island of Spitsbergen…
In the second of our Arctic Deeply stories, meet Joachim Myhrvang, a miner working in Svalbard, Norway. Follow along with him as he heads below ground for a day of work. At 7 a.m., Monday to Friday, Myhrvang enters Mine 7, pours himself a cup of coffee, and walks through the door from the clean zone into…
The day a stroll uphill from Longyearbyen turned into a five hour mission complete with route finding, reindeer sightings, boot skiing, dovekies calling, and broccoli sandwiches. Photo Eric Guth
(Post 1 of 3) Welcome to Jan Mayen. Maybe you’ve never heard of it. This is a Norwegian territory at 71°N, and it’s 500km east of East Greenland, 600km north of Iceland and 1000 km southwest of Svalbard. The island is 54 kms long, and 18 people live here. On the island you will find:…
(Post 2 of 3) A thirteen month post on Jan Mayen with be the “grand finale” of Wiggo Johansen’s career. He is the station commander and a member of the Norwegian Air Force. What does he like best on Jan Mayen? “The stillness. At home you have to drive in line and shop in line….
(Post 3 of 3) Meet Jan Mayen’s nurse, Siw Landro. She arrived in March of 2015 after years of dreaming about this place. Siw was born and raised in #longyearbyen, #svalbard. Her father worked for the coal mine there, and her mother had a laundry. Siw has a partner and family back home, but Jan…
Oslo began with a $150 cab ride, but Abdi made it worth the money. He’s been in Norway for fifteen years and speaks five languages. I heard four of them in the first five minutes: he spoke to the airport staff in Norwegian, greeted me in English, answered a call in Somali, then realized I…