In the Svalbard Islands, one of the most northern parts of the world, the coal mining industry is booming. Hidden away in the mines lie the Arctic World Archive containing data and masterpieces from all over the world
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?
Climate change is taking it's toll on Svalbard and making life even harder for it's secluded community.
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
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.
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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