"1,000 Places" urges readers to go see the North Pole sooner rather than later – after all, who knows what will happen with so much ice melting all over the world? The North Pole, with its cycles of daylight and dimness, and Svalbard, with its unimaginably large icebergs and massive mountains, both also offer possible sightings of polar bears and multiple species of Arctic birds.
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