Snowmobiles are an essential form of transport in Svalbard,as there are no roads connecting the main, widely dispersed settlements
PHOTOGRAPHS: JHERONIMUS BOSCH CUTTING THE STONE 1500-10 MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO MADRID (PHOTO: RIK KLEIN GOTINK FOR THE BOSCH RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION PROJECT), TYLER OLSON/AGEFOTOSTOCK, SARAN VAID, ELISAH JACOBS
Snowmobile across Arctic Svalbard
If you’ve hunted for the northern lights in Sweden, snowshoed in the Alps and gone husky-sledding in Finland, there is one fnal frontier left for you in Europe: the archipelago of Svalbard. This Norwegian territory, situated just east of Greenland, is the closest most aspiring polar explorers will get to the North Pole.