You won’t see any cats - it’s illegal to own them. Expect to see people in pubs and restaurants wearing slippers. But then again, pretty much everything in Svalbard, which sits between the 78th and 80th parallels, is the “world’s most northerly” - and is on a prodigious scale.ĭue to its extreme polar climate and remoteness, Svalbard is no ordinary place, with some unique arctic wildlife and equally distinct quirks and customs to abide by. The place is not shy about its outlier credentials: even the ATM in the small town of Longyearbyen on Svalbard’s largest island of Spitsbergen boasts “this is the world’s most northerly ATM” on its screen as you insert your bank card.
Yet Svalbard has a lot to brag about to entice visitors, with dozens of opportunities to add ticks to the bucket list in a multi-day trip - from watching riotous northern light displays and dramatic glacier calving to a visit to a Soviet ghost town, polar plunges and the chance to spot the rulers of the ice kingdom, the polar bear. Most will never have heard of the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, home to fewer than 3,000 people and positioned just 600 miles south of the North Pole. This article contains links from which we may earn revenue.
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