Tag: Arctic

24 SEP

What it’s like to work in Svalbard, a group of Arctic islands where anyone can live visa-free — as long as you don’t run out of money and abide by its unique set of rules

Longyearbyen, the largest city in Svalbard on May 2, 2022. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago by the North Pole, is one of the world's only visa-free zones.  But residents who can't support themselves or find housing can be expelled by the governor. Insider spoke with four locals (one of whom was […]

21 SEP

Here’s what it took to move a broken-down US special ops aircraft stuck in an Arctic nature preserve just over 50 feet

A US Air Force CV-22 Osprey at the Stongodden nature preserve in northern Norway. Norweigan Armed Forces A US Air Force special operations aircraft has been stuck on a remote island in Norway for weeks.  Norway's military said soldiers have made progress recovering the CV-22 Osprey from a nature preserve. Using wooden planks and gravel, […]

26 NOV

First LNG shipment from Russia's Arctic to arrive in Northern Europe

Independent Russian gas producer Novatek has announced the first delivery of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Yamal project in the Arctic to an area near the port of Honningsvag in northern Norway. “The Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker ‘Vladimir Rusanov’ successfully reloaded an LNG cargo delivered from the Yamal LNG facility at Sabetta to […]

16 NOV

What’s it like to live on tiny island in remote Arctic Norway?

Sophie Kelk November 16, 2018 Share this article For six weeks, Sophie Kelk lived on a remote Norwegian island north of the Arctic Circle. This is what she discovered about island life—the good, the bad, and above all, the community spirit. As my flight begins its descent into Bodø, I catch a glimpse of the […]

08 OCT

2018 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Alaska Cannonball | At the edge of the Arctic Ocean

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Videos,Jeep,SUV,Off-Road Part 5 of our 14,000-mile Jeep Wrangler Rubicon adventure. Continue reading 2018 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Alaska Cannonball | At the edge of the Arctic Ocean 2018 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Alaska Cannonball | At the edge of the Arctic Ocean originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 08 Oct […]

30 SEP

Strands of hair shed light on doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition

Enlarge (credit: John Wilson Carmichael) Lead poisoning may have made life difficult for the doomed men of John Franklin’s 1845 expedition, which got lost in the Arctic while in search of the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But it probably didn’t contribute much to their inevitable fates. That’s the conclusion of a […]

26 SEP

Russia’s Bastion coastal defense fires supersonic missiles in first Arctic drills (VIDEO)

The Russian Navy has test-fired a supersonic Onyx anti-ship cruise missile for the first time. It was launched from the Bastion missile-defense system, which was recently deployed to the Russian Arctic. A video of the launch shows one P-800 Onyx missile, which can travel at speeds of up to 1,980mph, shooting up in the air […]

29 JUL

Great-power competition is growing in the Arctic, but lawmakers want to cut funding for the US’s next icebreaker

Great-power competition is growing in the Arctic, but lawmakers want to cut funding for the US’s next icebreaker NOW WATCH: Watch the incredible moment an iceberg flips out of the water and causes a huge wave See Also: 20 NFL players who lost a ton of weight in retirement and how they did it The […]