{"id":523,"date":"2014-03-01T21:37:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Sarcastic-Travels.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-03-01T21:37:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T01:37:28","slug":"arctic-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarcastic-travels.com\/arctic-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Our latest journey took us to the island of Spitzbergen<\/a> in the Svalbard <\/a>archipelago. This lies far above the Arctic Circle<\/a> (66 degrees, 33 minutes and 44 seconds north) at 78 degrees north and about 300 miles away from the northernmost coast of Norway<\/a>.As some of you know, we hoped to glimpse the Aurora Borealis <\/a>(Northern Lights) from this location, and perhaps to spot one of the 3,000+ resident polar bears<\/a>, which outnumber people, on this trip.<\/p>\n