We are on the MS Expedition and have sighted Polar Bears in the Greenland Sea.
Landing in Norway
My friend Louise and I have landed in Svalbard Norway, ready to begin our Arctic Adventure. This is me at the airport in Longyearbyen in Svalbard. I am holding a copy of ON THE WAY TO A WEDDING, written by my sister Sue.
Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It is halfway between continental Norway and the North Pole.
These maps are from http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Longyearbyen is the largest settlement on Svalbard, Norway. The town has a population of about 2,000.
We are on a Gap Adventures tour and this is where our journey will take us:
We will spend 14 nights aboard the MS Expedition travelling from Spitsbergen to Greenland to Iceland. You can read about the tour on the Gap Adventures website here. I have also copied the itinerary here. We are hoping to see Polar Bears!