A vir­tu­al Spits­ber­gen expe­ri­ence of a spe­cial kind can be enjoy­ed in a video recent­ly published by Hein­rich Eggen­fell­ner:

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Night flight across Lon­gye­ar­by­en

Equip­ped with a came­ra he sends his remo­te-con­trol­led qua­dro­c­op­ter on a mid­night flight across the icy cen­ter of Lon­gye­ar­by­en. The jour­ney starts in upper Lon­gye­ard­a­len at the con­nec­ting road bet­ween Nyby­en and Huset and takes us across the town, to the coast of Advent­fjor­den. On the other side of the fjord the full moon is stan­ding abo­ve the moun­ta­ins of Hiort­fjel­let. In front of the uni­ver­si­ty buil­ding of UNIS the aeri­al dro­ne stops and turns to the left, cat­ching the view to the air­port and to Isfjor­den. Then it returns to its start­ing point on the same rou­te. On our way back we can see a group of snow­mo­bi­les coming down the Lon­gye­ar­breen gla­cier.
Very impres­si­ve images!

The ‘came­ra­man’ Hein­rich Eggen­fell­ner lives in Lon­gye­ar­by­en and some of the Spits­ber­gen tra­ve­lers might know him as skipper/owner of the Arc­ti­ca II, a boat which Spitsbergen-Svalbard.com uses for sai­ling tours sin­ce 2014.