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Svalbard | Landscapes in the North

There it was, deep in the Arctic Circle… the land of eternal winter and ice, with its tiny, barely lit settlements. The land we read about in geography textbooks and have never thought of seeing with our own eyes.

The land exploited from ealry whale hunters, to every nation chasing coal mining, to nazi armies. The land of the midnight sun where the sky and the land merge together in an intense white, leaving everyone wondering where forwards and backwards are in a similarly intense silence.

The land where struggle merged with freedom, and where sadness merged with joy… and they all became one and the same… 


Svalbard | Landscapes in the North
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Svalbard | Landscapes in the North

Winter landscapes spotted in Spitsbergen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen during an arctic cross-country skiing and dog sledding expedition over 6 days.

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