Chapter 631 Polar Region
Cold wind cuts the face.
Bifang walked out of the cabin, exhaled a puff of cold mist, and shivered all over.
Suddenly entering the bitter winter from midsummer, even people with the strongest constitutions will feel the biting cold.
At this time, Bifang had already put on his windbreaker.
This is not Greenland, but Longyearbyen in the Svalbard Islands.
78 degrees 13 minutes north latitude, 15 degrees 33 minutes east longitude, the northernmost city in the world.
There are about 1,800 residents here, most of whom are Norwegians. It is the northernmost city with a large population in the world.
There is also a newspaper in the city - Svalbard Post, which is the northernmost post office in the world.
This place is actually quite close to the northernmost tip of Greenland where Bifang wants to go, with only the Greenland Sea in between.
It only takes a few hundred nautical miles by ship through the Fram Strait and the arrival time is less than two days.
In fact, Bifang could have taken a direct flight, but he chose to go to Svalbard first and then take a cruise to Greenland .
One is to see the beautiful Svalbard Islands.
The scope of the Arctic is very broad. It can refer to the area near the Arctic Circle or the North Pole at 90° north latitude.
As a traveler coming here, of course you have to go to Svalbard, the hometown of polar bears. It is cold here, but not too cold. A thick down jacket is enough.
Here you can see the aurora borealis during the day, as well as free polar bears, Greenland whales, and houses nestled in the snow.
There are no tall buildings. As a tourist destination, it is not as crowded as other places. It is peaceful.
The reason why I didn't come back after surviving...
Bifang suspected that given his condition after a hundred days, he would have no interest in traveling at all, so he might as well leave himself with a good memory first.
The second is to give your body a period of adaptation.
From a high temperature zone of over 30 degrees Celsius, suddenly running to a low temperature zone of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, the temperature difference of more than 60 degrees is a severe test for the body.
Bifang didn't want to fall ill as soon as he got off the plane, so he took a break in the Svalbard Islands. One day of sightseeing and two days of cruise were enough.
I took out my cell phone and checked the temperature that day, it was minus three degrees Celsius.
When walking in the airport, you can even see young and beautiful girls showing their smooth ankles.
I hope they won’t suffer from rheumatism and arthritis when they are in their thirties and forties. Bifang sends out good wishes.
In coastal areas, the humidity is high and the temperature is low, so the cold air can easily invade the body and cause great damage.
"Everyone should keep warm in winter." Bifang specifically advised the audience in the live broadcast room.
As soon as he got off the plane, Bifang started the live broadcast, also wanting the audience to appreciate the natural scenery together.
Perhaps the North Pole was so attractive that hundreds of thousands of viewers gathered in the live broadcast room before long.
Although I have been traveling these days, the audience in the live broadcast room has really enjoyed it and there are live broadcasts to watch almost every day.
Look, less than two days after returning from Central China, the show started again, and the scene was still completely different from the sunny beaches in Central China.
It was as if we had suddenly gone from summer to winter.
Everyone's clothes became bulky, and especially for most of the audience who were still in the midsummer season, the feeling was very strange, as if they had entered a fairy tale world.
Walking out of the airport in Longyearbyen, the capital of the Svalbard Islands, Bifang saw a striking "Tourist Notice" at a glance.
It is densely covered with prohibitions.
It is forbidden to litter, kill or disturb birds and animals, relocate trees, pick flowers, or destroy cultural relics...
[Damn, this is too strict, isn't it? ]
[How strict is this... Is this what civilized tourists should do? ]
So in the audience's impression, as a tourist city, shouldn't there be a welcome sign?
As a result, right from the start, you can’t do this or that, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable.
Bifang smiled and did not respond, but instead told a story.
"On June 17, 1596, a Dutch sailing expedition saw an island almost covered with ice and snow in the endless sea. Steep peaks stood above the white snow. At that moment, the entire sailing team was almost crazy. This was definitely a new continent, a new continent that had never been discovered by anyone. And this was the first time that the Svalbard Islands were exposed to the world."
"That adventurer is the Dutch explorer Willem Barents."
"At that time, William discovered a large number of Greenland whales in nearby waters, and from then on began a three-hundred-year history of European countries plundering the whale resources of this unowned land."
"Since then, more and more adventurers have arrived here. Especially after the rich mineral resources were discovered, this place attracted more enthusiastic adventurers."
The audience had vague guesses about the story that would follow.
Bifang sighed and continued walking and chatting on the road.
"The universe is so vast that humans have never stopped exploring it. The Arctic, Antarctic and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have special geographical locations , and people have always wanted to set foot on those special lands. As the closest habitable area to the Arctic, the Swarna Islands undoubtedly provide living conditions for exploring the Arctic."
"In the museum here, there is a copperplate engraving created in 1791 that truly reproduces the scene at that time."
Bifang saw this copperplate engraving following the guidebook.
On the sea, dozens of fishing boats were cruising, and whalers were holding harpoons and stabbing at whales that were spewing huge columns of water; on the shore, hunters were holding rifles and shooting at polar bears and seals.
The gifts from nature seem extremely fragile under people's greed.
All this has caused a drastic reduction in the number of local species, and some species are even on the verge of extinction.
It was not until the signing of the Svalbard Treaty that the sovereignty here was confirmed to belong to Norway, and a relatively complete ecological protection law was gradually established locally, and the environment was gradually protected.
It is easy to destroy, but extremely difficult to restore.
And it is not possible for one person to restore Svalbard to its original state. It requires the joint efforts of everyone who comes here.
This almost stringent "Environmental Protection Regulations" is one of the efforts, and the self-awareness of tourists, residents and scientific researchers is a major driving force for environmental change.
Since then, the environment on the archipelago has gradually been effectively protected.
Only in this way would Bifang see a ban instead of a welcome as soon as he goes out.
"But there is actually good news for our Chinese tourists."
Bifang rolled up the guidebook and explained, "On February 9, 1920, China was one of the countries that signed the treaty. This means that China has the right to develop this land."
"We can carry out any non-military activities on this land, and citizens can freely enter and leave Svalbard."
"The only problem is that there are only SAS and Norwegian flights from Oslo and Tromso in Norway , so you still need to apply for a Schengen visa."
