Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From exciting snowmobile tours to cosy cabin retreats, winter is a magical time to visit Svalbard's remote Arctic landscapes.

Discover five of the darkest, cloudiest places on Earth where people actually live, from Arctic towns with 65 days of night ...

At 10:40 a.m. on a day in January, two powerful beams of light from the Svalbard governor’s boat pierced the complete darkness of the mountain-fringed fjord it was sailing. It was carrying the ...

Cecilia Blomdahl has some advice for dealing with the winter doldrums. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. A resident of Svalbard, a ...

Anyone who has ventured to the far north or south during winter will have experienced the surreal phenomenon of the "polar night," during which the sun doesn't rise. Most people who have encountered ...

The countdown to polar night begins slowly. Twelve hours of sunlight a day become 10, then eight. The sunrise slowly creeps later into the morning and sets a little earlier each evening. Minute by ...

Utqiagvik, Alaska has seen its last sunrise this year; America's northernmost settlement will not see the Sun again until Jan ...