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Nox Polaris DA - Offers planning assistance and organization of expeditions and media visits, guiding, journalistic work and tv-productions in the polar area.
The Governor of Svalbard - The Governor is the highest representative of the Norwegian government on Svalbard. Information about the region, environmental protection, traveling in Svalbard, maps, and laws and regulations concerning Svalbard.
Svalbard Polar Travel - Tour operator. Tourguide, hotel information and conditions of sale.
Svalbard, the Arctic pearl - Tourist information for the arctic archipelago Svalbard and Spitsbergen. Facts page, information about climate, flora, birds and animals.
The Svalbard Pages - Weather links - Historical information from Statistics Norway and 24 hour real time temperature log.
Svalbard Snowmobilerental AS - Offers snowmobile safaris and snowmobile rental. On-line booking. (In English and Norwegian.)
Svalbard Wildlife Service AS - Tour operator. Information about tour programmes and accommodation. Online hotel booking. (Parts of site in Norwegian.)
The University Courses on Svalbard (UNIS) - News and information about UNIS. Information about the university studies, course catalogue, rules of entry and application form. Research, staff, vacant positions, and library.
Nordlysstasjonen in Adventdalen (The Auroral Station) - Information about the observatory, contact information, data from selected instruments (magnetometer, meridian scanning photometer, ebert-fastie spectrometers, meridian imaging spectrograph and all sky camera). Weather data from Adventdalen.
SvalSat - Svalbard Satellite Station, Norwegian Space Centre. Facts, information about services, list of customers and image gallery.
Bjerrang, Mathias - Personal homepage. Information about the Bjerrang family, hobbies and polar expeditions. Webcams. (Some of the information is in Norwegian.)
Torun Polar Station - A polar station located on north-western Spitsbergen owned by Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. Publications, maps and photo gallery.
TravelGIS.com for Svalbard - Travel guide with intelligent maps and online reservation for hotels and airfare.
The Svalbard Pages - Information and links related to the arctic archipelago Svalbard. Lists commercial companies, public services, tourist information, frequently asked questions and a picture gallery.
Svalbard - General Information - Information from the Norwegian Polar Institute about geology, biology, cultural relics and settlements.
Spitsbergen Travel and Hotel - Travel agency and tour operator located in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen. Accommodation, adventure tours, on-line booking. (Site in English and Norwegian.)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Svalbard "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Svalbard "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Svalbard Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Svalbard "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Svalbard "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Svalbard Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Svalbard I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic Svalbard "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Svalbard Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Svalbard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Svalbard "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Svalbard It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Svalbard When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Svalbard "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Svalbard I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Svalbard The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Svalbard He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Svalbard An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Svalbard Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Svalbard What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Svalbard "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Svalbard
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