A view of Barentsburg, Svalbard

🇸🇯 Svalbard

Barentsburg Travel Guide

Still inhabited, still Russian; reachable only by boat or snowmobile.

Our Barentsburg guide is in the works

We haven't published our full guide to this city yet. Rather than fill the page with unverified information, we'd prefer to wait — like the others, the Barentsburg guide will cover things to see, where to stay neighbourhood by neighbourhood, real places to eat, getting around and a day-by-day itinerary.

What we know so far

Still inhabited, still Russian; reachable only by boat or snowmobile.

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The world's northernmost town — painted wooden houses beneath an icy mountain.

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