Reprinted with Permission from author, and high-latitude sailor, Jon Amtrup. The pristine environment on Svalbard is under constant threat from climate change and now the Norwegian government has issued new...
Source: Afloat.ie Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, located on top of the world, roughly midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Glaciers on Svalbard have...
© http://kartverket.no/ The Norwegian Pilot Guide is to be revised and more customized for the professional user, however until the revised editions are published, the current pdf versions of the...
The Norwegian Chart Organization is issuing all the pilot books for Norway for free in an electronic version you can download. The eight volumes consist of sailing directions for the...
Vagabond is now back in Longyearbyen, after a summer on the East coast of Greenland, as a logistical base for 2 scientific projects. After over 9 months frozen in ice...
Juho has lived aboard his boat s/y Sylvia above the Arctic Circle for a couple of years and has sailed through two winters. The question that people ask him the...