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Major Nikon

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4. I didn't see any polar bear

Reply to aint_no_life_nowhere (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 01:26 AM

Feb 2014

But I didn't spend much time there. There were plenty of arctic fox and arctic hares. The Danish contractors on the base at the chow hall used to feed the fox.

At the base dump there were seagulls and crow of all things which I would have never imagined would be able to make it that far north.

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Norway is NOT the capital of Sweden [View all] Major Nikon Jan 2014 OP

I've always wondered what it would be like to live in the Svalbard archipelago aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2014 #1

I've been almost that far north Major Nikon Jan 2014 #2

My dad spent a year at Thule aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2014 #3

I didn't see any polar bear Major Nikon Feb 2014 #4

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