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Pro
Great nature, nice people
Con
small, not much to see for an average tourist
In a nutshell
A small research community very far in the north.
Join the Society of the Blue Nose
fred98115 Says: To get to Ny Alesund you will cross the Arctic Circle and be eligible to be inducted into the Society of the Blue Nose. We sailed across on the Holland America ship, Prinsendam, and were inducted as we crossed the Circle. The ceremony is simple: everyone jumps into the pool....
fred98115 Says: While there is a small gift shop and museum in town, the most interesting thing to do is to just walk around. For example, Roald Amundsen's house is here along with his bust. Amundsen tried to fly to the North Pole from here in 1925 in a Dornier zeppelin. There is the...
Does not exist!: There is no Restaurant in Ny-Ålesund!
Epix Says: Since Ny-Ålesund is a very small "scientists only" community, there is no public restaurant in this town. All the local population gets their food in the cantine, but this is not available for tourists.
Mellageret: Vorspiel-Bar-Nachspiel
Epix Says: Mellageret ("Flour Storage") is a bar which is run by the local population of Ny-Ålesund on Saturdays. It is not available for tourists which come on a tour operated by a professional tour operator (i.e. cruise ship tourists). Opening times usually from 10pm to 2-3am. It is...
Polar bear warnings are serious
fred98115 Says: The morning before we arrived a polar bear meandered through town. Spitsbergen Island has as many polar bears as people. There are signs at the edge of town warning you to carry a weapon and that you need to know how to use it. Signs should be taken seriously. These are big...
See the Polar Ice Sheet while near Ny Alesund
fred98115 Says: This is so cool, literally. Air and water temperature were zero Celcius when our Holland America ship, Prinsendam, coupled Ny Alesund with a visit to the polar ice cap. The multi-year ice sheet is about nine or twelve feet thick, and it looks solid from a distance. The edge...
Cruise to Magdalena Bay and see glaciers
fred98115 Says: North of Ny Alesund is Northwest Spitsbergen National Park with the spectacular Lilliehook glacier. It is accessible for viewing from the water and is at the end of a fjord, Magdalena Bay. This is unique because you can see the extensive ablating which has occured in the...
globetrott Says: Never leave the town without a rifle or gun, simply to be prepared, in case that you meet a polarbear Ny Alesund is a small village, where only geologists and miners are living for the period of work and will leave the village, whenever they got their rather long time of...
Plan a Ny-Ålesund vacation with reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and Ny-Ålesund locals
Never leave the town without a rifle or gun, simply to be prepared, in case that you meet a polarbear Ny Alesund is a small village, where only geologists and...
Q: I understand that there is a town of Alesund. Is this town close to NY Alesund?
A: hy, no, Ny-Alesund is in the Svalbard Island, Artic Sea, Alesund in the west Norway, between Bergen and Trondheim. There are 2000 kms between Alesund and...
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The World's northernmost community
Ny-Ålesund is a great place. It's the northermost community on our planet (okay, there is "Alert" still more northerly, but that's a military base, not a civil town). People come here to work in the...
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Ny Alesund - where the Polarbears say goodnight...
Ny Alesund is much more out in the wilderness than Longyearbyen
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Northernmost civilian settlement on Earth
Once a coal mining settlement, Ny Alesund today is a research center with 30 year-rounder and 130 summer only residents. This is a hard place to reach, and is best done by boat in the summer. We were...
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In Ny-Ålesund you find the most northern postoffice and the main reason for many tourist to stop here. It was our second destination on the cruises and the crews last chance to phone home without...
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