From Svalbard, I made my way to Ushuaia, the world’s southernmost city, stopping along the way in Oslo, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Most of the tourist cruises to Antarctica leave from Ushuaia, which is much closer to Antarctica than Australia …
From Tromso, I flew to Longyearbyen, the main settlement on Spitzbergen, the main island in the Svalbard archipelago in the north of Norway. The furthest north I’ve ever been. (It is so far north that if you want to see …
After the UK, I flew up to Tromso, in the north of Norway. Tromso lies just inside the Arctic Circle and is one of the best places in the world to see the northern lights. But you’re still not guaranteed …