Longyearbyen

We landed at Longyearbyen and...

...spent the first night at the Svalbard Polar Hotel, which sports this view of the UNIS university, fjord and mountains from the restaurant.

The population of Longyearbyen is about 1400, and many houses are brightly coloured.

Scheuchzer's Cottongrass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) in Longyearbyen.

We left Longyearbyen onboard M/S Brand on the second evening, and our destination was the Russian settlement of Barentsburg.