Longyearbyen (pictured) and Ushuaia are at opposite ends of the Earth, but have striking similarities. imageBROKER.com, Alamy Stock Photo On opposite ends of the Earth, Longyearbyen, Norway, the ...

Visiting Svalbard in June also allows travelers to avoid the busier month of July, which marks the height of the Svalbard ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Over 30,000 fossils were found on Spitsbergen, dating back 249 million years Fossils include teeth, bones of marine reptiles, amphibians, fish, and sharks Findings show rapid marine adaptation after ...

Ponant Explorations launches a new incentive giving travel advisors the chance to turn their peak-season booking into the ...

Members of the Norwegian royal family, including King Harald V (88) and Queen Sonja (87), celebrated a special occasion on Wednesday: the 100th anniversary of the so-called Spitsbergen Treaty, which ...

A whitish layer striating the Arctic cliffs of Spitsbergen provides exceptional testimony to the regenerative capacity of the living world. This accumulation of bones, 249 million years ...

Alexey Chekunkov said that a draft concept for an international scientific and educational center on the archipelago was approved in November 2025 MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/. More than 160 scientists ...

French ocean expeditioner Jean-Baptiste Charcot had a thirst for exploration; a “gentleman of the poles” who took French ...