More than 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where the North Atlantic Current keeps things warmer than you'd image, lies Kvaløya. Dominated by 3,300-foot-high mountains, the island is Norway's ...

It's a thrill arriving in Tromso, for this is call-of-the-wild country. The frontier town 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle is a springboard to the snowy north's polar darkness, to the ...

Anywhere else in the world, a city 1,200 miles south of the North Pole – and 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle – would be a wild-west sort of town, where men wrestle polar bears and reindeer wander ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In summer, the sun does not set while in winter, you can experience the Northern Lights in Tromsø. It needs to be dark, the darker ...

Where explorers once set sail tourist attractions now abound, and there's hiking, sledding and more under a sun that, in summer, never sets Tromso may be remote - located on a small island 344 ...