Islands of the Arctic Ocean

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Blue glacier ice, Esmarkbreen, Svalbard
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Blue glacier ice, Esmarkbreen, Svalbard

The Arctic Ocean has several islands. Some are inhabited, others are completely covered in snow and ice and are uninhabitable.

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Destinations

  • Jan Mayen — home to a tiny radio & weather station
  • North Pole — not an actually an island, just a shifting virtual point on a vast mass of ice
  • Nova Zembla — nuclear test site
  • Svalbard — by far the most visited island in the high Arctic

Understand

Talk

Get in

Get around

By plane

The only Arctic island with scheduled plane services is Longyearbyen in Svalbard, accessible on SAS flights from Tromso and Oslo, Norway.

See

Do

Stay safe

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