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One local hotel for those working and doing research.

Ny-Ålesund has Svalbard's largest collection of automatically protected cultural heritage sites. 29 builidings in total, amounting to about half of all the buildings in the settlement, are protected.

Oldest building in the settlement of Ny-Alesend

As a visit in Ny-Ålesund it's also important that one walks on the roads and wooden pathways, and not on the tundra.

Local homes in the village

Statue of Roald Amundsen’s honoring his expeditions to the North Pole. This was his starting point to the North Pole adventures.

Building housing the Chinese expeditions and research in the area.

Sign warning everyone not to venture beyond it without a weapon to defend against Polar Bears.

You can still see the mooring mast that the airship “Norge” was docked with here in the photo.

Biologists do research on the tundra and the birds that use it, and as such it's important to disturb the vegetation or wildlife as little as possible. In addition, there are many research installations placed in and around the settlement, so to be sure that one isn't ruining research findings one should stick to the roads.

View of a small tundra plant

Ny-Ålesund is also known as being the starting point for Roald Amundsen’s expeditions to the North Pole. You can still see the mooring mast that the airship “Norge” was docked with. This was also the starting point for the dramatic North Pole expedition of the Italian Umberto Nobile, whose airship crashed when returning from the pole point. Half of the onboard crew died in the crash, but Nobile miraculously survived the crash and was later rescued.

Our ship the Diamond Ocean docked with tundra in the foreground. Obviously the air temperature was a cold day and in August too.

The arctic summer overcast and cool. Reflections on the arctic ocean.

Antennas and communication equipment for the research in the area.

Photos at the Museum showing the location of Ny-Alesund in the Arctic.

Map of Svalbard areas to the right and Spitsbergen areas to the left.

Small residences for the researchers to stay while spending the long cold winters

Ny-Ålesund is a settlement with a dramatic history. The period of 1917 to 1962, King’s Bay Kull Company ran mining operations in Ny-Ålesund. Throughout this period there were a number of accidents, and a total of 76 people lost their lives in mining related activities.

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