Svalbard

An Arctic archipelago where polar bears outnumber people/Landforms

Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, located roughly midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Covering about 61,022 square kilometers, it is one of the northernmost permanently inhabited places on Earth. Approximately 60% of the land is covered by glaciers. The human population of around 2,500 is outnumbered by an estimated 3,000 polar bears, and carrying a rifle is recommended when traveling outside settlements. Svalbard is also home to the Global Seed Vault, a secure facility dug into a mountainside storing duplicates of seed samples from gene banks worldwide as insurance against catastrophe.