
Norway - Svalbard (PDF Chapter)
This is the Svalbard chapter from Lonely Planet’s Norway guidebook.
This wondrous archipelago is a land of dramatic snow-drowned peaks and glaciers, of vast icefields and forbidding icebergs, an elemental place where the seemingly endless Arctic night and the perpetual sunlight of summer carry a deeper kind of magic.
- hike onto Longyearbreen glacier
- maps
- experience the polar silence like explorers of old on a dog-sledding trip
- transport
- take a summer day trip to see walruses on Prins Karls Forlandet
- restaurants & accommodation
Coverage includes: Longyearbyen, Barentsburg, Pyramiden, Ny Åle-sund.

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