| Wasn't it Lyra Belacqua who rode astride the fearsome armoured bear Iorek Byrnison to Svalbard? |
| He decided to claim it as a new nation, and wrote to the governor of Svalbard. |
| Five of them lived in the DDR, but they held annual reunions to remember their year in Svalbard. |
| Two of the three largest known polar bear denning areas are on Wrangel Island and the Svalbard Archipelago. |
| It has since reached the Svalbard Islands and is now spreading south down the Finnmark coast of Norway. |
| Is that why we put money into monitoring and seed banks on Svalbard, an archipelago north of the Norwegian mainland? |
