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The Svalbard Islands - Official travel guide to Norway - visitnorway ...  The Svalbard Islands are located in the Arctic Ocean, halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Here, you will find untouched arctic wilderness and unique...
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Svalbard - The World Factbook  Central Intelligence Agency  Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
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Svalbard 2016: Best of Svalbard Tourism - TripAdvisor  Svalbard Tourism: TripAdvisor has 7142 reviews of Svalbard Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Svalbard resource.
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Svalbard travel guide - Wikitravel  Open source travel guide to Svalbard, featuring up-to-date information on attractions, hotels, restaurants, nightlife, travel tips and more. Free and reliable advice...
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Svalbard - Lonely Planet  Svalbard is the Arctic North as you always dreamed it existed. This wondrous archipelago is a land of dramatic snow-drowned peaks and glaciers, of...
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Polheim - Wikipedia  Amundsen (at left) and companions at Polheim, South Pole, December 1911. Polheim ("Home at the Pole") was Roald Amundsen's name for his camp (the first ever) at the South Pole. He arrived there on December 14, 1911, along with four other members of ... On December 18, 1911, Amundsen's expedition left Polheim, leaving behind...
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English-Finnish translation :: tundra :: Dictionary - Englanti Suomi  Treeless, level or rolling ground above the taiga in polar regions (Arctic tundra) or on high ... Arctic tundra covers about one-tenth of the earth's surface.
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Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia  The top flag is the Flag of Norway; the bottom is marked "Fram". Photograph by Olav Bjaaland. The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four others arrived at the pole on 14 December 1911, five weeks ..... The privately revised expedition schedule required Fram to leave Norway in...
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Vatnajkull - Wikipedia  Vatnajkull also known as the Vatna Glacier in English, is the largest and most voluminous ice ... in the south-east of the island, covering more than 8 percent of the country. ... On 7 June 2008, it became a part of the Vatnajkull National Park. ... km (340 mi) from Slttaratindur, the highest mountain in the Faroe Islands.
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Why there are no penguins in the Arctic. | Greenpeace International  Jul 8, 2010 ... Guillemots gather on an iceberg off the north Svalbard coast ... in the middle of the ocean; but there is no pole at the North Pole  and even if you put one there, ... the Great Auk didn't live in the Arctic  it didn't really stray farther north than Iceland and could be ... So why is this extinct bird called a penguin?
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tundra | ecosystem | Britannica.com  A major zone of treeless level or rolling ground found in cold regions, mostly north ... their treeless northern reaches the tunturi, but the concept of a vast frozen plain as ... is covered with ice, it lacks a well-developed tundra, though lichens, mosses, ... Over much of the Arctic, permafrost extends to depths of 350 to 650 metres...
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Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia  The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer ... He obtained the use of Fridtjof Nansen's polar exploration ship Fram, and ... that a Norwegian had been the first person to set foot in the South Pole, but not in the .... He would take Fram round Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean; after...
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Ellef Ringnes Island - Wikipedia  Ellef Ringnes Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. ... (in favour of Canada) in 1930. A High Arctic Weather Station (H.A.W.S.) called Isachsen lies on the west coast of the island. It was opened April 3,...
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Week 6 Com Modifying) Pretes Santa Claus - Scribd  It was designated "Santa Claus Land" and marketing plans and tourist attractions ... Tourism has always been concerned with the visual and the spectacular: its object is ... and Finland meet) which is the only mountainous part of the country. ..... and Workshop located on the Arctic Circle a few kilometres north of Rovaniemi.
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Arctic People | National Snow and Ice Data Center  Even so, people have found ways to explore and live in the Arctic. ... harsh Arctic climate, developing warm dwellings and clothing to protect them from frigid weather. ... They also alerted the camp when polar bears were present. ... Europeans started venturing north into Arctic regions of Scandinavia and Russia only around...
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Built for the Arctic: A Species' Splendid Adaptations  Jan 27, 2004 ... Watchful for dinner, almost always a seal, a polar bear prowls along the water near ... were obviously a treat, an ursine month of sundaes with a cherry on top. ... Polar Bear Project at the federal Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage. ... subgroups like that of the western Hudson Bay may well be wiped out if...
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | Russian explorer | Britannica ...  These were the first sightings of land within the Antarctic Circle, thought at first ... The Russian expedition leader Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, the ... first sightings in 1820: Bellingshausen sighted a shelf edge of continental ice ... of only 0.1 square mile (0.3 square km), it has no anchorage in its lagoon. .... View More.
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Hopen (Svalbard) - Wikipedia  The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International. It supports breeding populations of...
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The Tundra Biome Tundra is the coldest of all the biomes ... - StepMap  A layer of permanently frozen subsoil called permafrost exists, consisting mostly of gravel and finer material. ... plants in the arctic and subarctic, and these include:  low shrubs ... and heaths. Animals living in the alpine tundra are also well adapted: ... Because of its northern location there are many substantial. Facts about...
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Adventure Travel - National Geographic Adventure Magazine  Where the birches begin, however, Torkel lets the others go on. ... Vikings and snowflake sweaters, lutefisk and Peer Gynthear "Norway" and the mind ... World Cup ski jump and Nordic contest (held in March) that the event has been named ... together boat-to-slope trips that explore the country's huge range of ski areas.
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Snfellsjkull - Wikipedia  Snfellsjkull is a 700,000-year-old stratovolcano with a glacier covering its summit in western ... The mountain is included in the Snfellsjkull National Park (Icelandic: ... Visitors are advised not to enter caves unless accompanied by an ... in Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth...