Svalbard News

We here at Norway Post wish all our readers a most Happy and Prosperous New Year!! We thank you for your support and encouragement in 2009 and look forward to serving you in 2012! The Rakfisk, as Smalahovud and Lutefisk, dates back to the ancient Scandinavian culture and peoples need to store food over a considerable period of time.

The parliamentary group of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's Labour Party is in favour of opning a new coal mine in the Lunckefjell mountain on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

Crown Prince Haakon will speak to Prime Minister Stoltenberg on the South Pole via satellite fromA TromsA in Northern Norway on the anniversary of Amundsen's expedition to theA Pole.

A professor from the University of Oslo in Norway successfully launched a two-stage rocket from Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, on Saturday to intercept and research aurora activity over the Northern hemisphere.

Heavily parka'd passengers disembark from a C-17 near the McMurdo Station U.S. science base on Antarctica's Ross Island.