3. Bask in the midnight sun During the summer months in Svalbard, when the North Pole is angled closest to the sun, the archipelago experiences perpetual daylight.

The last piece of privately-owned land in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard is up for sale for a cool 300 million euros ($324 million). Spanning 14,830 acres (23.2 square miles), the land has ...

Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja visited the main settlement on the strategically located Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on Monday, at a time of increased interest in the resource-rich polar ...

Context: Political History of Svalbard The origin of Svalbard’s unique legal status may be traced to its role as a locus for commerce and trade centuries ago. Initially named Spitsbergen by the Dutch ...

The Svalbard archipelago, located north of Norway halfway to the North Pole and well within the Arctic Circle, is a remote geological wonderland. Svalbox DMDb is a new regional database which ...

Non-native, invasive species are among the world’s biggest environmental problems. The Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard has been unaffected – up until now.

Consider the peculiarities of Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean midway between the North Pole and the northern coast of Norway: Its territory technically belongs to Norway (though ...

Norway has installed the world’s northernmost solar farm and battery storage in the Svalbard archipelago, just south of the North Pole. State-owned energy company Store Norske Energi installed ...

Svalbard is an archipelago located well off the Norwegian mainland. If the airport were closed entirely, noted CNN, "most of [Svalbard's] essential supplies would have to arrive by ship, a journey ...