The closest airport Longyear (IATA: LYR) is about 50 km away.
Interesting places in Barentsburg
1. Forlandet National Park
| photo_caption = Map of national parks at Svalbard; this is #5
2. Barentsburg Pomor Museum
The Barentsburg Pomor Museum is a small museum located in Barentsburg, a town in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Created during the 1920s by the Dutch, the coal mining settlement was sold to the Soviet Union in 1932, and so it was the USSR which founded the museum in 1963. Today owned entirely by the Government of Russia through Arktikugol, Barentsburg is a shadow of its former self, with only a few hundred inhabitants compared to over a thousand during its heyday. The mus…
If you have already seen Barentsburg, there are still plenty of things to do on the outskirts of the city. Are you fancy to travel around a bit? Here is our list:
To understand Barentsburg better you can also take a look at the gallery.