Chapter 383: Longyearbyen

Yang Meng had a serious expression: "These scientists are really great. It's really not easy to suffer this crime for the development of human science in such a difficult place."
Xiao Peng looked at him with doubts, it was not like what Yang Meng would say? Is this guy sick?
Sure enough, Yang Meng continued: "No, I have to go to the Antarctic when I have time, and talk to the science girls about life and ideals... Feed the real Antarctic beauty beyond penguins. Brother Peng, how many sets do you think I can bring?"
Xiao Peng let out a sigh, um, this is Yang Meng's correct way of thinking. Well, he is not sick yet.
At this time, Old Al walked out of the mobile cabin: "Xiao, I have already contacted over there. The tourist plane has already set off, and it will take about 20 minutes to reach us."
Xiao Peng looked around, "Old Al, don't tell me, this is the airport?"
Old Al nodded and said, "Yeah, this is our airport in New-Alesund. How about it? It's unique, right?"
Have characteristics? Well, the biggest feature of this New-Alesund Airport should be the feature of "no features."
New Alesund and Longyearbyen, the capital of the archipelago, have fixed routes. This is also the patent of the Science City. In the entire Spitsbergen Islands, there are only fixed routes here.
As for the airport in New-Alesund, if no one told Xiao Peng, he would never think it was an airport: the entire airport was located on a slightly flat piece of land among the hills. There is no waiting room, no rotating radar dedicated to the airport, no air crew, and there is a small mobile room of six or seven square meters. When an airplane arrives, it is pushed here as a duty room. With the goose yellow navigation lights, Xiao Peng would not think this was the airport. Yep. Said he was a car driving school training ground is almost the same, the entire wilderness.
In fact, Longyearbyen and New-Alesund are very close, only 114 kilometers away, and you can reach the destination in 20 minutes. The most important role of this plane is sightseeing, because this route is a small plane with a flying height of only two kilometers, allowing passengers to overlook the land and sea scenery of Spitsbergen through the porthole.
However, the short 20-minute voyage really complied with the domestic saying: "It's flying."
After a while, a PA-28 "Cherokee" flew from the sky. This was the private jet pilot whom Elder Al knew Xiao Peng wanted to go to Longyearbyen, and he specifically contacted Xiao Peng. The most important thing is, who makes Xiao Peng not bad for money?
After the driver got down, without saying anything, he gave Xiao Peng a warm hug: "Hey, you are Hua Xia Xiao? I heard that you got old Al drunk? Thank God! Then you are my good brother! What do you do? A good thing that all the descendants of the Vikings of Spitsbergen will raise their hands and praise! My name is Haverdan! Brother, let's go, let us go to the sky and see this jewel of the Arctic Ocean."
Haverdan spoke like a machine gun, but Xiao Peng liked this person very much and was enthusiastic enough.
Xiao Peng and Yang Meng boarded the plane and flew to Longyearbyen, the world's closest city to the North Pole, the capital of Spitsbergen!
Haverdan is really interesting. It only takes 20 minutes to get from New Olsen to Longyearbyen. Haverdan took Xiao Peng and flew in the sky for more than an hour, allowing Xiao Peng to overlook the islands. Xiao Peng pushed In particular, there are many more beautiful scenery.
After Xiao Peng had a good time, Haverdan sent the two to Longyearbyen. Haverdan became a tour guide and left the airport with Xiao Peng and came to Longyearbyen, the northernmost city in the world.
Longyearbyen was built in a valley to block most of the Arctic winds and make it more suitable for human life. Approximately 2,800 people live here. However, there are more than 100,000 tourists here every year, and people want to go sightseeing in this northernmost city. This also includes many Chinese people. After all, there is no visa for Chinese people. Many Chinese who travel to Norway will stop by here.
Longyearbyen has a unique law: it is the only city in the world where death is illegal.
Unless they die suddenly, patients and elderly people must leave Longyearbyen and go to a Norwegian hospital for treatment and retirement. It is also forbidden to have children here, and pregnant women must leave Longyearbyen one month before giving birth.
Of course, this law is actually very reasonable, and the rejection of death is also determined by the harsh natural environment here. The temperature here is too low, and the ground is basically frozen soil. The body will not rot naturally here. It is definitely a special treatment to die here.
The'Spanish flu' that ravaged Europe in 1918 spread here, and seven absentees slept here. Scientists found these seven absentee bodies in 1998, and extracted virus samples of the ‘Spanish flu’ that year.
This is also the reason why I dare not die here. God knows what virus is lurking here? In the event of a virus outbreak, things will be big.
As soon as Xiao Peng and Yang Meng walked out of the airport, they saw many snowmobiles parked outside the airport. Haverdan said that BUS is only available when the flight arrives, and snowmobiles are usually used for transportation. Spitsbergen is one of the few places where snowmobiles are licensed to drive in Norway. So it has become the main means of transportation in Longyearbyen.
As a native of Longyearbyen, Haverdan is more familiar with snowmobile riders. Three snowmobiles were rented, but other tourists could not do this. Although the snowmobile is very simple to drive: the left hand brakes the right hand throttle, and both feet are fine. But if you want to drive a snowmobile in Longyearbyen, you need a driver's license.
The three people did not drive the snowmobiles for long, and they came to the center of Longyearbyen. Xiao Peng’s first feeling was: "I have come to the fairy tale world." The neat wooden cabins are colorful, giving more white snow. The city adds a lot of color.
Even though Longyearbyen has less than two thousand residents, it is a tourist city after all. It is really a small sparrow with all its internal organs, such as swimming pools, climbing walls, gymnasiums, grocery stores, bars, hotels, churches, theaters, Nightclub, tennis court. . . . . . There is even a university!
Haverdan arranged a hotel for the two of them. Haverdan walked over with three shotguns on his back and handed them one of them: "Xiao, take it."
Xiao Peng wondered: "What are you doing with a gun?"
Haverdan said: "In Longyearbyen, you are not allowed to leave the city without a gun. After all, there are too many bears here."
"A lot of bears?" Xiao Peng didn't forget that he wanted to bring a bear and Teddy together.
Haverdan sat on the snowmobile: "Of course, there are only more than 2,000 people in Longyearbyen, but there are more than 3,000 bears living here. Don't you think there are too many bears?"
Xiao Peng put the shotgun on the snowmobile: "Bear hunting is everywhere in the bear country. Why don't you hunt bears here?"
Haverdan smiled and said: "People here are breaking the law even if they die, let alone bears? Polar bears here are very dangerous. A foreign tourist was attacked by a polar bear a few days ago and died directly, so although hunting is not allowed here. Bear, but in a crisis situation, you can shoot to defend yourself. But you must remember that you can only hit your feet, not headshots! If you really have a headshot, hey, you can wait for a huge fine!"
"Uh...this rule is too unique? Feelings are more important than people?" Yang Meng said.
Xiao Peng nodded: "This is understandable. After all, the original ecological Arctic environment means that there are endless tourism resources here, which is of great help to the development of the city. You said that if one day, there will be no polar bears here, How many people come here to travel? So the government here really did nothing wrong. Here, polar bears are indeed more important than humans."
Haverdan gave his thumbs up: "Xiao, he is really a smart man, and the key point is when talking about the problem. We were the first mine here. In fact, the mining industry is still an important part of Longyearbyen, almost half of it is here. All of the residents work in the coal mines here. But now tourism has been developed and the residents’ pockets are much richer than before. So now, protecting the environment here is a very important thing for us Longyearbyen."
But for Xiao Peng, the original ecological scenery here is really beautiful. The reindeer herds are not afraid of people here. Even if Xiao Peng walks next to them with a camera to take pictures, they still look relaxed and contented. Xiao Peng reached out to touch them without dodge.
This made Xiao Peng amazed: "Haverdan, your protection here is so good, this reindeer is so fearless. Look at how cute they are."
Haverdan curled his lips and said disdainfully: "The whole Spitsbergen Islands prohibit hunting animals. They have no natural enemies, and of course they are not afraid of humans. But I would rather believe that they are foolish. Yu When they come to something strange, they always have to think first,
Should I be afraid of him?
If they feel that they are not afraid, they just walk like a crab and ignore you. Of course, they don’t rule out that they suddenly react when they are walking. , Nima, I should be afraid of him'. Then it happened to run away."
Yang Meng smiled, "How can you tell us the silly roe deer of China?"
Xiao Peng pointed to Yang Meng: "How do you steal me, I want to say the same, but these two things are two extremes..."
Haverdan puzzled: "Xiao, what are you talking about stupid roe deer?"
Xiao Peng explained: "Roe deer is a common wild animal in our northeastern China forest area. It is completely opposite to the reindeer situation here. It is too curious. It wants to stop and see what it is. Seeing chase The person suddenly yelled, and it would stop to see what happened. So in China, if an experienced hunter misses a roe deer with a single shot, he will not chase it, because the roe deer will smash for a while. Pidian ran back to the place to see what happened just now. That's why we called it a silly roe deer."
Haverdan smiled and said, "Ha, the world is so big that there is no wonder, too stupid, not too smart, too smart."
Just as Xiao Peng wanted to say something, suddenly the phone in his backpack rang. Xiao Peng saw that it was an encrypted satellite phone!
Xiao Peng apologized to Haverdan, walked aside and picked up the phone: "Hello?"