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With white glaciers, dramatic mountains and fragile fauna, the archipelago of Svalbard – wild and mysterious – tempts people from all over the world. For all coming here, as for those who came during the exploring years, Svalbard is something else: harsh and brutal, but also breathtakingly beautiful. Rumors about this mysterious land of ice and polar bears reached the mainland not long after William Barents discovered the archipelago, and soon people came for leisure as well as for hunting and exploring. To put into writing how the surroundings changes around you even within a day can seem impossible. How the warm autumn light can make Hiortfjellet shine as gold, or the joy of finally feeling the first ray of sunlight after four months of darkness.