
Bear Island
In the beginning of this year I made a crazy decision. I decided to move to Bear Island to work as a meteorologist for six months. The island is located in the Barents Sea in between Spitsbergen and mainland Norway. There is no people on the island except for the crew consisting of nine people. The crew is replaced every six months. It used to be longer but not everyone could handle the isolation so the Norwegian Meteorological Institute decided to make it a six-month long co