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Polaria

A small aquarium and Arctic research centre with bearded seals, built as five ice floes tipped against a shore.

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Polaria is in Tromsø, and this is Tromsø — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 920 km across and 330 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 1 hour · Open year-round · 69.646°N, 18.951°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The Bergen and Dovre railways are two of Europe's great train rides and cost less than the equivalent flight if booked early. All of Norway →

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Tromsø · Northern Norway · Norway

We do not hold opening hours, prices or a website for this

Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

Other places in Tromsø

Arctic Cathedral

Eleven concrete triangles and a glass mosaic 23 metres high, finished in 1965 and visible from the whole city.

Church

Storsteinen

421 metres by cable car, with the island city below and the midnight sun above it from late May.

Viewpoint

Journeys that stop here

Arctic to the Baltic

Midnight sun to hanseatic brick

19 days

The Cold North

Winter, treated as the reason rather than the problem

18 days

Arctic to Mediterranean

The full length of Europe, 69°N to 38°N

34 days

The record

What this atlas holds about Polaria, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Museum
Give it
1 hour
Season
Open year-round
Where
69.646°N, 18.951°E
In
Tromsø