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The colorful houses of Longyearbyen, Svalbard
At 78 degrees north, Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited community. Rather than some remote outpost, the town of just over 2,000 people is surprisingly normal, with a supermarket, bars, church, cinema, school, and even a municipal swimming pool. Longyearbyen is the world's most northern easily accessible settlement, with Svalbard Airport just outside town offering regular flights to and from Tromsø and Oslo, Norway. The airport served 120,000 passengers in 2007.
The colorful houses of Longyearbyen, Svalbard
At 78 degrees north, Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited community. Rather than some remote outpost, the town of just over 2,000 people is surprisingly normal, with a supermarket, bars, church, cinema, school, and even a municipal swimming pool. Longyearbyen is the world's most northern easily accessible settlement, with Svalbard Airport just outside town offering regular flights to and from Tromsø and Oslo, Norway. The airport served 120,000 passengers in 2007.