 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Travel just a click of the remote away.
; Byline: Alfred Borcover In the Arctic wilderness of Kong Karls Land, east of Spitsbergen, Norway, a polar bear slowly emerges from her winter's slumber, poking first her head and then her lumbering...
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Svalbard
; ...Eriksenstretet Greenland Sea Halvmneya Hopen Hornsund Isfjorden Kong Karls Land Kongsya Kvitya Longyearbyen Lgya Moffen Nordaustlandet Nordkapp Ny-Alesund Olgastretet Prins Karls Forland Repyane Spitsbergen Storfjorden Storya Svenskya...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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High-def natural history
; ...BORCOVER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE Date: 03-18-2007, Sunday Section: TRAVEL Edtion: All Editions In the Arctic wilderness of Kong Karls Land, east of Spitsbergen, Norway, a polar bear slowly emerges from her winter slumber, poking first her head and then...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Hi, I'm the chap next door and I'd like to have you for dinner.
; ...mildly,' said Allan, 55. 'Polar bears are the biggest land predators in the world and if they are hungry, they...was on the menu elsewhere. The encounter happened in Kong Karls Land, an archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic which had not...
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Screen giants: the scenery-chewing stars of Earth, the year's biggest film Exclusive pictures from most expensive documentary ever show plight of animals struggling for survival in face of global warming
; ...melting ice caps on the Norwegian island of Kong Karls Land, home to the world's largest concentration...male polar bear swimming away from sight of land or ice, desperately looking for an island to land and rest on." Thousands of miles south in...
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Capturing the world.(Planet Earth: The Making of All Epic Series)(Brief article)(Book review)
; ...heard of, let alone dreamt of visiting. The BBC spent 25 years campaigning to be allowed into the Bogon Valley in Kong Karls Land, a group of islands east of Spitsburg considered the Mecca for polar bear viewing. Having finally been granted permission...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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I've never seen an elephant fly..but I have seen a hippo surf; Meet the Scots producer behind the most amazing television wildlife series ever Bigger, bolder, braver and more astonishing than any wildlife series previously known to man - that's BBC1's epic Planet Earth. GRAHAM KEAL discovers some of the secrets behind the stunning images from the man who made the series, Alastair Fothergill.(Features)
; ...History Unit. Similarly delicate negotiations took Scottish polar bear specialist Doug Allan to the remote island of Kong Karls Land in Spitzbergen. But once there he was not allowed snowmobiles, only skis. Alastair said: If you get in trouble with...
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