The recent driving license issue caused considerable unsettledness especially in Longyearbyen’s Thai community. By coincidence, it was found out that driving licenses from countries such as Thailand do not meet certain formal criteria and hence are not valid in Norway including Svalbard. This has caused difficulties for a number of people, especially from Thailand, who live in Longyearbyen. There are many who need to drive a car also within their jobs.
Road traffic in Spitsbergen.
Norwegian authorities have now established at least a temporary solution, according to a notice by the Sysselmesters: driving licenses from countries that have ratified the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic will be accepted until 31st December 2023. Until then, a permanent solution needs to be found. There is some small print connected to this solution, but it is assumed that it will apply to most, if not all, of those who currently have a problem with their driving license.
By the way, my new book is in print and it can now be ordered 🙂 it is a photo book with the title “Norwegens arktischer Norden (3): Die Bäreninsel und Jan Mayen”, with German text Click here for further details!
This and other publishing products of the Spitsbergen publishing house in the Spitsbergen-Shop.
Norwegens arktischer Norden (1): Spitzbergen
Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German. [shop url="https://shop.spitzbergen.de/en/polar-books/70-norwegens-arktischer-norden-1-aerial-arctic-9783937903262.html"] ← Back
Lofoten, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen from the air - Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German, but there is very little text, so I am sure that you will enjoy it regardless which languages you read (or not).
The companion book for the Svalbardhytter poster. The poster visualises the diversity of Spitsbergen‘s huts and their stories in a range of Arctic landscapes. The book tells the stories of the huts in three languages.
Comprehensive guidebook about Spitsbergen. Background (wildlife, plants, geology, history etc.), practical information including travelling seasons, how to travel, description of settlements, routes and regions.
Join an exciting journey with dog, skis and tent through the wintery wastes of East Greenland! We were five guys and a dog when we started in Ittoqqortoormiit, the northernmost one of two settlements on Greenland’s east coast.
12 postcards which come in a beautifully designed tray. Beautiful images from South Georgia across Antarctica from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea and up to Macquarie Island and Campbell Island.