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The world's most northern town is surprisingly easy to get to from Manchester
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukExpeditions into the high Arctic used to take many months of planning, followed by weeks of uncomfortable travel across treacherous ocean.
So it may come as a surprise to some that the most northern town in the world is surprisingly easy to get to from Manchester.
Longyearbyen sits on Svalbard, a remote island archipelago far to the north of (and administered by) Norway and around 800 miles from the North Pole itself.
Home to just over a thousand people, the settlement is nestled alongside the Isfjorden. The little town is so far north that for half the year it is completely dark and the sun does not rise.
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