Longyearbyen, Norway

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Longyearbyen, Norway

Longyearbyen, Norway

The world's northernmost town with a supermarket, a church and a pub still requires a rifle if you leave the settlement on foot, polar bears roam freely across Svalbard's tundra. Its permafrost is so complete that burial is not permitted, one of the more startling facts you'll pick up at the excellent Svalbard Museum, while the Global Seed Vault sits carved into a mountainside just outside town, a doomsday backup for the world's crops. Former mining infrastructure still threads the hillsides above a settlement now built as much around Arctic research as coal. As far north as ordinary life gets.

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