“Killing is the Svalbard history,” says guide Erlend, as we huddle round a fire in a tepee, escaping Arctic -33C winds. “Kids here learn these local traditions. They come up and shoot a reindeer, and ...
Painting of Magdalena Bay, Svalbard by François-Auguste Biard. (1839) Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Léonie d´Aunet was the first woman in history to visit the Svalbard archipelago. In ...