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Longyearbyen airport - start of my second trip to Svalbarld/Spitsbergen!
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Easier to see than I figured! Polar bear coming down the luggage carousel!
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Where did all the tourists go? Ooh, that looks like a tasty one over there!
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'Wherever you want to go, just walk past the polar bear...
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Lest you need a refresher on your geography, Svalbard is between northern Greenland and the electric wall outlets in the lower right
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Downtown Longyearbyen
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Fancy stores for the tourists
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The bright colors must help during the long winters
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Colorful residences
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At the top are the remains of some of the towers for the cables that used to carry the coal from one of the mines
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Santa Claus's mail drop for this part of the world
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A stuffed Bearded Seal at the Longyearbyen Museum
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Ringed Seal (stuffed)
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Radisson Blu Polar Hotel
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Polar bear, or art, or both in Longyearbyen!
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The Ortelius - time to depart!
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leaving Longyearbyen
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One of the lifeboats we thankfully did not need.
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leaving Longyearbyen
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Northern Fulmar
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Northern Fulmar
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Northern Fulmar
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Northern Fulmar
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Northern Fulmar
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Near Ny Alesund
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Northern Fulmar
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Northern Fulmar
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Glaucous Gull
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Glaucous Gull
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Black-legged Kittiwake
