It's late morning on board the MS Trollfjord when the announcement comes through: "Land in sight!" Welcome news after sailing 523 nautical miles - 970 kilometres - the distance between Honningsvag and ...

MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS Correspondent Vitaly Korneyev/. Most Russians have heard at least something about Spitsbergen - a cold Arctic archipelago. The name is associated with the vast snowy ...

Perhaps it's because of all the Nobel prizes they dish out, or because they have utilised their reserves of North Sea oil so much more judiciously than the UK, but I trust Norwegians. That's why when ...

Following the refurb, a new Science Center will debut onboard MS Spitsbergen (HX Expedtions) The onboard restaurant, Aune, will receive improvements to elevate the dining experience, while the galley ...

MURMANSK, June 5. /TASS/. The Clean Arctic public environmental project's first expedition to Spitsbergen departed from Murmansk. A group of 15 people went to the Norwegian archipelago, the project ...

Boasting sparkling blue ice caves, stunning glaciers and even a warm spring, Spitsbergen has a dark past. The icy island, which is Norway’s biggest, is 660km away from the mainland. The island is ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

For years, methane emissions from the seabed have been observed in the Arctic Ocean off Spitsbergen. The assumption that the warming of seawater by climate change is responsible for the release of ...

DURING every year between 1906 and 1926, Norwegian State-aided expeditions have been at work in western and central Spitsbergen. Of nine-teen out of the twenty-one expeditions the geologist, Adolf ...