Yang Jing and his team stayed in Alert for more than a week. Including the time they took when they came, more than twenty days had passed.

At the end of July, the Arctic Ocean had completely entered the warmest time of the year. At this time, the ice layers in the coastal areas of the Arctic Ocean had melted, and a large number of glaciers collapsed from Greenland and entered the Arctic Ocean to become icebergs.

Because the ice melts relatively quickly, the Blue Whale has been sailing at a speed of ten knots in the sea seven or eight kilometers away from the coastline. When it bypassed the northern part of Greenland and entered the Greenland Sea, due to the influence of the North Atlantic warm current, the ice is almost no longer visible on the sea surface here.

Here, Captain Andre can safely and boldly increase the ship's speed to normal cruising speed, and then go straight to Longyle, the capital of the Svalbard Islands in northern Norway at this speed.

When the Blue Whale arrived in Longyle, it was already three days after leaving Alert.

Longyearbyen, located at 78 degrees 13 minutes north latitude, is the capital of the Svalbard Islands and is known as the northernmost city on this planet.

In fact, the title of "the world's northernmost city" is still in controversy.

Unlike the "world's southernmost city", which is recognized as Ushuaia, Argentina, the title of the northernmost city on the earth has been under debate.

The most troubling are two cities not far apart on the northern Norwegian islands, Hammerfest and Honningswig.

Hammerfest claimed that he was the "northest city in the world" two hundred years ago, and established many monumental buildings such as "northest symbol" and "northest hotel" that aim to prove its status. He also issued related tourist souvenirs, prints and stamps, which seized the "public opinion orientation" of many books, magazines and magazines.

The title of "the world's northernmost city" has brought many benefits to this small town with less than 10,000 people. Not only tourists come in a crowd, but many of the government's "tilt policies" have also benefited a lot. For example, the world's first street light for electricity is given priority in this city, because everyone agrees that there is a three-month extreme night in winter, which is the place where street lights are most needed.

However, their neighbor, Honning Schweig, located in the north corner, was obviously not convinced. The latitude of your Hammerfest is 70 degrees and 40 minutes north latitude, while we are 71 degrees north latitude. How can we say that we should be the "northmost in the world"!

But the Hammerfests were justified. According to Norwegian law, only 5,000 people could be called "city", while Honning Schweig had only 3,300 people in total, and could only be called a small town, which was useless no matter how far north.

Hammerfest's reason made the Hornishwig people very dissatisfied. So in 1996, the Hornishwig people declared themselves "city", but six months later it was declared invalid by the Norwegian government. In desperation, the city council played the Huairou card. Hammerfest had made a fortune because of oil processing, so he should be generous and give some of the benefits of "the northernmost" to his good neighbors.

Today, Honning Schweig has a bar known as the world's northernmost and a tourist destination that "the world's first sightseeing the northern lights". Every summer, there are as many as 208,000 tourists from all over the world by cruise to see the world's first ray of sunshine and the magnificent Arctic coastline, which makes them taste the sweetness of "the northernmost". However, they are still not satisfied, because Hammerfest has 250,000 tourists every year.

Faced with the dispute between Hammerfest and Honning Schweig on the "northmost city in the world", Longyier, further north, and Alert, further north, each moved a small stool to sit in the north, smiling at the two cities in the south, making their brains a dog-like brain for the title of "northmost city in the world".

Longyle and Alert were watching the boys, and they were both interested in watching, but they just didn't say anything.

Alert has no choice. Although it is the northernmost settlement in the world, Alert is self-aware. Alert, who is at 82 degrees and 28 minutes north latitude, is definitely the northernmost human settlement on this planet in any aspect. However, the settlement that Yang Jing and the others just left is too small and the environment is too harsh.

Yang Jing and the others had just left Alert for a few days, so they were the ones who felt the most about the situation there.

To the north of Alert is the Arctic Ocean that is frozen all year round, and to the south is a swamp covered with ice and snow. It covers ice and snow for more than half a year, and the roads are not distinguished. The rest of the days are muddy. Although there is a small airport, it can only take off and land so pitifully for dozens of planes a year, most of which are still snow-planes with only a few seats.

People there can't see a few tourists all year round, and residents naturally cannot be interested in the "most northernmost" battle that cannot bring them any benefits. The one that often talks about is the town's nickname "Hero Town", because only heroes - ambitious explorers and persevering scientific research personnel - dare to come to this place that is isolated from the world and is covered in ice and snow all year round.

To be honest, Yang Jing, who just left Alett, knew very well that Alett was not qualified to compete for the title of "the northernmost city in the world". There was not even a village or town there, so how could it be called a "city"? Not to mention that even if it was obtained there, it would be useless. More than 99:99% of people in this world cannot get there!

As for another place qualified to compete for the title of "the northernmost city in the world", it is Longyearbyen City, where Yang Jing and others are about to enter the port.

From a geographical point of view, Longyearbyen, at 78 degrees 13 minutes north latitude, is undoubtedly much north than the two quarrel neighbors in the south. Moreover, although the city has a population of only more than 1,800, it is an absolute city and a capital city. Therefore, no matter how you look at it, Longyearbyen is more qualified to win the title of "the world's northernmost city".

But, unfortunately, although this city belongs to Norway, it was discovered by American Longyi when he was looking for coal mines. The proportion of Russian and Ukrainians among the Norwegians is twice that of Norwegians. Because of this, although this town, known for its Arctic scientific research, has the northernmost coal mine and a considerable international reputation, in the eyes of Norwegians, this city is the least qualified to become the "northmost city in the world".

Even his motherland refused to admit it. In desperation, Longyi could only move his brother Alett, a pair of brothers in distress, to see the two cities in the south fighting each other there.

However, although the Norwegians were unwilling to recognize the status of Longyearbyen, the city was very famous all over the world. Otherwise, Captain Andre would not have set the second supply point on this voyage to this city.

Although Longyearbyen is not big, it has a dock where it can be docked with a 10,000-ton ship.

There is no way. Although Longyle was discovered by Icelanders as early as 1194, the harsh climate here makes it difficult to survive here. It was not until 1906 that American John Longyle discovered a rich coal mine in this area that the city began to flourish.

It is very certain that this city developed based on coal mines. Moreover, the Swell coal mine in Longyearbyen is one of the highest-produced coal mines in the world, which is very attractive for Europe under the background of industrialization. With the injection of US dollar capital, the coal mines bloomed everywhere in the Svalbard Islands. They were tempted by high salaries. Many miners from Norway, Russia and other countries left their hometowns to come here, fighting against the severe cold, and becoming the earliest islanders.

With coal mines, there is naturally a wharf that transports raw coal to export, so this ten-thousand-ton wharf is formed.

After the Blue Whale was docking steadily at the pier, Yang Jing and Princess led Dabai to get off the ship.

It takes a whole day to replenish the Blue Whale here, and it will not leave here until tomorrow evening when the Blue Whale will continue to move forward. Before that, Yang Jing and the others had more than 20 hours to visit the city.

After entering this city, Yang Jing discovered that this narrow city appeared in a valley. It was precisely because of the towering mountains on both sides that the residents in the valley could resist the cold wind from the Arctic.

The city is very small, much smaller than the Nuuk that Yang Jing once visited. However, the buildings here are as colorful and beautiful as Nuuk.

It is said that the houses here are all in this color because from November every year to January next year, Longyearbyen has a three-month extreme night. During this period, the entire city fell into darkness, so the exterior walls of the houses here are painted colorful to facilitate residents and tourists to identify in the darkness.

The hotel Yang Jing booked is the Radisson Blu Hotel in Longyearbyen, the best Spitsbergen Island Polar. Like other buildings in the small town, the hotel is also made of wood, and it is only two floors in height.

This four-star hotel is located in the center of a small town 1.3 kilometers away from the pier. Originally, the hotel wanted to send a car to pick up Yang Jing and the others, but because Dabai was there, Yang Jing refused. It was not far away anyway, so it was healthier to walk around.

On the way from the pier to the hotel, Yang Jing found that on the hillsides on both sides of the road, there were abandoned wooden cable car lanes everywhere.

These cable car lanes are left over from Svalbard Mining Group, the largest enterprise in the small town. Before mechanization is achieved, these cable cars are used to transport coal from the mining area to the terminal.

Longyearbyen is now in the extreme daytime, and it is the peak of tourism. When Yang Jing and his team got off the boat, it was 8:30 p.m. local time, but at this time there were still many tourists on the streets.

Yang Jing and his group quickly attracted the attention of many people, mainly because the big white beside Yang Jing was so attractive. Although some people in Europe and the United States also keep polar bears as pets, such a big polar bear is really rare. Even though Longyearbyen City, like Churchill in Canada, has many polar bears, and this city is also called the "hometown of polar bears", it is really rare to walk on the street with a wild polar bear so swaying.
Chapter completed!