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Svalbard’s polar night can be endured — if you know the right crowd
...While the prime area for chalets in Crans are Plans-Mayens, Les Briesses and around the golf course, there’s more space to build in Montana — home to a big development of apartments, Résidence Le Guépard...
Pressure on Oslo over fishing and other activities around Svalbard will increase, says legal firm
Country’s last coal mine on Svalbard archipelago was slated to close next year but will now remain in operation until 2025
A new operator offers the chance to explore the archipelago’s lonely shores on a ship carrying only a dozen guests
...It currently offers 298 properties, including numerous mayens, the wooden huts among the high alpine pastures to which farmers moved with their cattle at the start of summer....
Swaddled in a survival suit, Horatio Clare climbs aboard a snowmobile for a frozen four-day journey in search of polar bears
...We were staying above Les Haudères, on the edge of a hamlet called La Forclaz, at the Mayen à Madeleine....
...ahead of parliamentary elections — had caused consternation because the 2013-17 coalition agreement explicitly ruled out oil exploration in Lofoten, More, and other Arctic areas such as Vesteralen and Jan Mayen...
...James Hansen, the US climate researcher and former Nasa scientist, argued last year that Norway should leave its remaining fossil fuels in the ground, arguing that saying they were in the middle of a “green...
...In Plans-Mayens, Savills Alpine Homes has a new-build project for sale: a four-storey, six-bedroom chalet for SFr16m....
Total solar eclipse; lifeguard stations turned art installations; British Airways’ ‘carousel collection’; death of a respected ski guide
...During the year Faroe extended its exploration interest alongside fellow UK company Valiant Petroleum to licences in Icelandic blocks close to the island of Jan Mayen, a former whaling and fishing station...
...Last week Faroe Petroleum and its fellow UK company Valiant Petroleum were both granted exploration licences in Iceland blocks close to the island of Jan Mayen, a former whaling and fishing station now controlled...
...Eykon turned to Cnooc after being told by Iceland’s national energy authority that it needed to find an international partner for its bid for an exploration licence in the area around the island of Jan Mayen...
The story of Bain and the buffalo makes one question business travel
Cary Fowler moved from Memphis to Rome – and commutes to the Arctic Circle
...The village changed its name in 2004 from Les Mayens des Riddes, embracing the local patois in which tzoumer means “to rest”....
A remote radio transmitter in Svalbard has been converted into the world’s most northerly boutique hotel
...Like the delightful Le Mayen in the Swiss resort of St-Luc-Chandolin, a stay at this chocolate-box cliché is for now confined to the summer only. But surely it could work in the winter too?...
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