Southbound

I know how much I love snow at the north end of the world. (Beautiful Svalbard pictured here.) It’s time […]
Read moreI know how much I love snow at the north end of the world. (Beautiful Svalbard pictured here.) It’s time […]
Read moreArctic Deeply ventures to Jan Mayen island to meet the 18 people who compose Norway’s most isolated community. Learn more […]
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreIn the second of our Arctic Deeply stories, meet Joachim Myhrvang, a miner working in Svalbard, Norway. Follow along with him as […]
Read moreThe day a stroll uphill from Longyearbyen turned into a five hour mission complete with route finding, reindeer sightings, boot […]
Read more(Post 1 of 3) Welcome to Jan Mayen. Maybe you’ve never heard of it. This is a Norwegian territory at […]
Read more(Post 2 of 3) A thirteen month post on Jan Mayen with be the “grand finale” of Wiggo Johansen’s career. […]
Read more(Post 3 of 3) Meet Jan Mayen’s nurse, Siw Landro. She arrived in March of 2015 after years of dreaming […]
Read moreOslo began with a $150 cab ride, but Abdi made it worth the money. He’s been in Norway for fifteen […]
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