'Landet av Isbjørn' literally meaning 'the land of the ice bear' is the name often used for the islands of Svalbard

Jaime is on a tour giving his mixed media talk about the Ice Bear and Islands team’s world first sea kayak circumnavigation of Svalbard Archipelago Norway.   2300km’s, 71 days, 3000 Polar Bears, 160km’s of unbroken Glacial cliffs.   “The talk that must be heard” ~ Jeff Allen UK   The name of the expedition, ‘Ice Bears and Islands’, refers to the many polar bears that roam in this

Our recent successful world first sea kayak circumnavigation of Svalbard Archipelago in Arctic Norway was helped immensely by our use of the Delorme InReach explorer system. The system provided so many useful applications that it became a center piece of our 71 day 2300km trip. “Our weather updates, funnily enough, where even sent to us from someone based in Antarctica, proving even more how immen

From the southern end of Edge Oya, we swung our bows west towards our last major challenge, the distant outline of Spitsbergen, 70 kilometers away.  Strangely, like all our open crossings, the weather shifted to calm and we crossed un hindered. Throughout the day the sun slowly dropped lower in the sky, and for the first time on our journey, I watched it completely disappear below the horizon.  Th