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MI TULAR – CHAPTER I
Svalbard Islands, Norway, are the most northern and the most inhabited place on Earth. The polar bears population here exceeds the human population. But who are exactly the inhabitants of the Svalbard?
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Environment
MI TULAR- CHAPTER II
Climate change is taking it's toll on Svalbard and making life even harder for it's secluded community.
Politics
Is There a Norwegian-Swedish Solution To The Irish Backstop?
Following his recent visit to Ireland, Boris Johnson told Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that a no-deal Brexit would be a failure that both their respective governments would be responsible for. The Irish backstop remains a sticking point for the British...
Society
Arctic World Archive
Housed in an abandoned mine, the Gruve 3, there is the Arctic World Archive. The innovative project created by the Norwegian company PIQL aims to preserve “all the memory of the world”. PIQL has created a film with a secret polymer formula made to last 500 years, but thanks to the conditions of the arctic, the aim is that it can stay preserved for a millennium. Data, including films, writings, paintings, photographs and everything else that humans have produced, and which represents our collective historical memory and identity are transferred onto the film. Among those which transferred data into the world archive Fpolaare the ESA, the Vatican Library, the Alinari Archives and the Cineteca di Bologna.
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Pyramiden, the Arctic Ghost Town
Pyramiden, the Ghost Town of the Arctic. Until 1998 inhabited by Russian miners, it is now an abandoned place where only a few tourists arrive, they stay a few hours to visit the "model" city of the former Soviet Union and then they leave. Currently there are 11 people living here: they are guardians of the settlement as well as guides for those coming to visit Pyramiden
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The Svalbard Islands
In the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, survival lays in the knowledge of ice and climate. In fact, in the blink of an eye, the ice could melt, or a storm could break out. In the photos, a guide tests the ice before showing around tourists, a house during a storm, the merchant ship that transports coal from Mine 7 to the mainland, and a view of Mine number 7.
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Who are the inhabitants of Svalbard Islands?
Among the people living on the Svalbard islands in the Artic Ocean, the most Northern part of Norway, as well as the northernmost inhabited land on Earth, are miners, firemen, philosophers who do plumbing to make ends meet, and Evelina, the store manager of a weapons-for-hire store.
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