{"id":208,"date":"2008-11-02T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-11-02T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T21:37:12","slug":"no-ghosts-in-longyearbyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/no-ghosts-in-longyearbyen\/","title":{"rendered":"No ghosts in Longyearbyen!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span>Grad <\/span>is the Norwegian word for ‘degree.’\u00a0 It is 42 <\/span>grader <\/span>where I am right now in southern MN.\u00a0 I just looked at the <\/span>v\u00e6rkart <\/span>(weather map) for Norway and there is quite a spread of <\/span>temperaturer.\u00a0 <\/span>Many people incorrectly assume that Norway is much colder than the northernmost part of the United States.\u00a0 I live in southern MN and I can say that it gets REALLY cold here in the winter.\u00a0 I read somewhere once that Minnesota has the second most extreme climate in the world behind Siberia.\u00a0 Siberia gets much colder than MN, no doubt, but the range of <\/span>temperaturer <\/span>here is much greater.\u00a0 It reaches 100 here in the summer and sinks below zero often in the winter.\u00a0 I lived in Oslo for 8 months and it was typically warmer there at a latitude of 59 than it was in St. Paul MN at a latitude of 45.\u00a0 Norway has the gulf stream to keep the coastal areas temperate.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is 48 grader <\/span>(fahrenheit) in Oslo right now.\u00a0 The high in Norway today is 52 <\/span>grader <\/span>in Arendal, Sandefjord, and Fredrikstad (all 3 in the southeastern part of the country) <\/span>and the low is 12 <\/span>grader <\/span>in Longyearbyen.\u00a0 Longyearbyen is on the island Spitsbergen, which is the main island of the Svalbard archipelago off the northwestern coast of Norway.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Longyearbyen is named after John Munroe Longyear (byen <\/span>means ‘the city’), owner of the Arctic Coal Company of Boston.\u00a0 Longyear settled the area in 1906 and it is now considered the northernmost town in the world with a population over 1,000.\u00a0 Mining is a major form of livlihood for the inhabitants of Longyearbyen.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

2 interesting facts about Longyearbyen that I think are really cool:<\/p>\n

1-There is a global seed vault that has the capacity to hold millions of crop seeds in the case of global disaster.\u00a0 Longyearbyen was chosen for the site of the safe both because of its remoteness and for\u00a0the temperature of the permafrost.\u00a0 And because of this permafrost…..<\/p>\n

2-bodies may not be buried there.\u00a0 The ground is too cold.\u00a0 In the 1930s it was discovered that the bodies were not decomposing because of the permafrost cover.\u00a0 Bodies have to be transported to another area of the country for burial.\u00a0 Bizarre, huh?\u00a0 I guess there should be no reason for any haunting in Longyearbyen then.\u00a0 Too bad for all those kids next week on Halloween!!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Grad is the Norwegian word for ‘degree.’\u00a0 It is 42 grader where I am right now in southern MN.\u00a0 I just looked at the v\u00e6rkart (weather map) for Norway and there is quite a spread of temperaturer.\u00a0 Many people incorrectly assume that Norway is much colder than the northernmost part of the United States.\u00a0 I…<\/p>\n

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