Published On: Tue, Sep 17th, 2024

‘The sun doesn’t set in this town all summer and locals carry weapons’ | Europe | Travel


A YouTuber who visited a remote Arctic town where the sun doesn’t set all summer has revealed why the locals are told to arm themselves. 

Ben Morris has a dedicated travel channel that boasts 805,000 subscribers, with the explorer visiting everywhere from an “Island run by the Mafia” to the “Most hated city in Europe”. 

In a new video posted yesterday, ‘I Visited the Town with 24 Hours of Sun’, Ben travelled to Longyearbyen in the frozen Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a remote Norwegian…