Svalbard Travel News

Ken Soar gives his verdict on a 13-day Arctic expedition cruise on board MS Quest.

More tourists are visiting the Arctic than ever before as climate change brings threats to the region into the news.

It will be the world's most northerly railway, a private line snaking across the permafrost and rock of Baffin Island at a projected cost of $10-million per kilometre.

Spitsbergen, Shetland, Faeroe, Lofoten and Visby. Sailing among the northernmost islands in the world in search of the perfect northern lights Sailing the northern seas - the North Atlantic,Arctic and Baltic - ...

Karen Carpenter, get out of my head. Right now, I am aboard a polar expedition vessel just 10 degrees from the North Pole.

The next generation of monarchs for Denmark, Sweden and Norway met on the Norwegian-run Arctic archipelago of Svalbard over the weekend and set off on a five-day study tour.

UPCOMING COVERAGE FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 21 ALGERIA-FRANCE ALGIERS, Algeria _ French Prime Minister Francois Fillon visits Algeria for talks on a controversial Paris summit of Mediterranean nations in July among ...

Svalbard archipelago is a land of stark beauty, whether it be the schooner stuck in Arctic ice, top, to its colourful huts or the ice cave carved by runoff out of a Spitsbergen glacier.

“Barentsberg once had 2,000 inhabitants, but now only 500”

After five days of brilliant sunlight, memories of darkness fill me with nostalgia. via Daily Herald

“The only way to be independent was something that had something to do with the tourists. We have six, nearly seven, months with tourists in town”

When Kazem Ariaiwand fled Iran to seek asylum in the West he never imagined he would end up here, at the frozen edge of civilisation, hawking kebabs in a place where polar bears outnumber people. via The Age

March 31. KAZINFORM. Three people died and three were injured in a crash of a Russian helicopter of the Arktikugol company on Spitsbergen, a source at the Russian embassy in Oslo told Itar-Tass. The helicopter ... via Kazinform

“We don't want to. We want to keep it for ourselves.'”

'This place is abandoned by God and ought to have been abandoned a long time ago by mankind as well' -Historical quote on mural at Longyearbyen's museum This is where people will come after Doomsday: a town 600 ... via All About Jazz

“Global warming is a global threat so we have to have a global answer. "Biodiversity is also something that has to be treated as a global problem and this project is a great example of international solidarity and co-operation.”

It's one of the most remote places on Earth but for one day only, the 21st Century media machine has gathered on an Arctic mountainside, 600 miles from the North Pole. via MyFOX Atlanta

Glowing a ghostly green against the flood-lit, snow-covered mountain, by night, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault resembles a Bond villain's lair. via Sky News

“The seed vault is the perfect place for keeping seeds safe for centuries”

Next week will mark the official opening of what has been referred to as both the 'Doomsday Vault' and more optimisically as the 'Noah's Ark' for seeds. via EUobserver.com

Seven postgraduate researchers from Swansea University will travel to the Arctic and Antarctic Polar Regions this month to learn more about glaciology and the effects of climate change up close. via News Wales

The Russian mining ghost town of Pyramiden on Arctic Svalbard will soon be developed into a new Russian tourist center, according to NRK. via The Norway Post