Soar over Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town, nestled on the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago.

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Getty Images To live in Europe’s only visa-free zone, where the largest town, Longyearbyen, tops out at just over 2,000 people, self-sufficiency is key, due to scarce job opportunities.

A breathtaking European island is among the rare destinations where visitors can hike and kayak in peace, free from the ...

In the Svalbard archipelago, at 78 degrees north latitude, lies Longyearbyen, the northernmost city in the world with a permanent population. This Norwegian settlement, founded in 1906 by American ...

Crowds of passengers disembarked and outnumbered local residents in the centre of Longyearbyen on Saturday.   Not long after ...

Blomdahl, who lives in Svalbard’s largest city of Longyearbyen, is one of about 2,500 residents in the region. Here, colorful cabins contrast colossal ice cap backdrops and vibrant celestial ...

There is fun, but from her cabin near the town of Longyearbyen, the largest inhabited area of the Svalbard archipelago, she tells MailOnline Travel that life at the top of the world on the Arctic ...

This photo taken on June 3, 2025 shows the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. Fourteen gene banks ...

Eight years into living in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, I embrace the seasonal plunge into total darkness Cecilia Blomdahl - Author of Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on ...

Night - Cloudy with a 46% chance of precipitation. Winds ESE at 15 to 16 mph (24.1 to 25.7 kph). The overnight low will be 26 °F (-3.3 °C). Cloudy with a high of 38 °F (3.3 °C) and a 52% ...

Former minister Tobias Ellwood tells The i Paper he proposed buying land in the strategic Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard ...