1893 Bar
1893 Bar Opens daily after breakfast. There are cocktails made with arctic gin from the Lyngen Alps, or vodka refined with the golden taste of cloudberries, barrel-aged aquavit,...


Published: 31.07.2025
Short post out of the ordinary.
Found in the news today (31. 07. 2025).
Longyearbyen - An polar bear has been shot on Spitsbergen. According to local authorities, the police were informed that this was to prevent an attack by the predator on a group of residents at Kongsfjord in the northwest of the Norwegian archipelago. The chief officer of Spitsbergen, known as Sysselmester Lars Fause, has initiated an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.