"It's 1:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. and you have all of the stars in the sky... You feel like you're in the galaxy," Cecilia Blomdahl tells PEOPLE of living in Svalbard Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter ...

Grim the Finnish Lapphund lives in Svalbard, Norway, with his owner Cecilia Blomdahl Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

Eight years into living in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, I embrace the seasonal plunge into total darkness Cecilia Blomdahl - Author of Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a ...

Cecilia Blomdahl stands in the entryway of her cabin, panning the camera to reveal a body of water glittering with light from the midnight sun. In the distance, you can just make out the seven ...

Totally isolated from any other humans other than your roommate/best friend/coworker who you're sharing a 215-square-foot room with during some of the darkest days imaginable. Sound all too familiar?

Some of the richest biodiversity that resides in a sprawling archipelago nearly midway between Norway’s northern coast and the North Pole is ripe for inspection, not with high-powered binoculars, ...

"It's 1:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. and you have all of the stars in the sky... You feel like you're in the galaxy," Cecilia Blomdahl tells PEOPLE of living in Svalbard Cecilia Blomdahl sheds light on her ...

Cecilia Blomdahl sheds light on her life living in total darkness for approximately three months of the year on a small arctic island near the North Pole called Svalbard. She explains the positives ...

Cecilia Blomdahl sheds light on her life living in total darkness for approximately three months of the year on a small arctic island near the North Pole called Svalbard. She explains the positives ...