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let's start at the very beginning

14/7/2015

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The flight time from Oslo, Norway (OSL) to Longyearbyen, Svalbard (LYR) is 2 hours 55 minutes. Apart from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), Norwegian also flies there.
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Blue skies welcomed us at Svalbard Lufthavn Longyear. Longyearbyen (previously Longyear City) is named after John Munro Longyear, who started a settlement here after founding the Arctic Coal Company in 1906 to mine in Svalbard.
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Our location is 78° 15N - 15° 30E. We flew 2046km from Oslo and Bangkok is 8378km away.
It's been over a month now since we embarked on our Arctic adventure and we'll be taking these next few weeks to retrace our journey. We arrived in Longyearbyen on June 10, three days before our fellow artist explorers were due in town, so we had some time to look around.
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    Hello!

    Glad you're joining us here. I'm an artist + educator learning and creating from the amazing things encountered adventuring in Svalbard in the high Arctic and around the world.

    The classroom explorers and I returned in July 2015 and they have now all headed back to their classrooms to share what they saw, discovered and learned.

    Have a look around to find out more about the adventurers and how we prepared for the expedition. You can read our Arctic trip log in order by starting with Day 0 in the categories section below. For pre-trip posts, use the Archives section and start with April 2015 : ).

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