Longyearbyen, Norway
Things to do in Longyearbyen
Everything in the Atlas for Longyearbyen: places to see and things to do, in one list.
Svalbard Museum
Whaling, mining, trapping and the ecology of an archipelago where nothing decomposes, in one well-made room.
Global Seed Vault
A concrete wedge in a mountainside holding a million seed samples. Nobody goes inside; the point is that it is there.
Out of town, legally
Any trip beyond the settlement needs a guide carrying a rifle and trained to avoid using it. That is the law and it is also the honest reading of the risk.
Dog sledding on the glacier
Wheeled carts in summer, runners in winter, and the same dogs that supplied the mines before snowmobiles.
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