Longyearbyen, located in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, offers a unique travel experience with its polar night phenomenon. For about four months each year, from November to February ...
and 24 hours of darkness in the winter (polar night). Credit: Tunde Pecsvari, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 One ancient Greek scientist proposed the existence of polar day and polar night before people even ...
The five-night itinerary (from $4,500 per person) also includes a helicopter safari and a stop at polar bear jail. Pro tip: “Snag a window seat near the rear of the vehicle,” Kit Muir ...
this results in the unique months-long phenomena of the "midnight sun" with 24-hour daylight in the summer and the "Polar Night" of winter, when the sun does not rise above the horizon for months ...
Of 73 documented attacks by polar bears from 1870 to 2014 in Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and the United States — which killed 20 people and injured 63 — 15 occurred in the final five ...