Don’t wake a sleeping polar bear in the Arctic – or you’ll end up paying a $6,770 fine
- OSLO – A person in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic has been fined 50,000 kroner (S$6,770) for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear, local officials said on Aug 13.
- The incident took place earlier in August when a vessel was sailing in a fjord in north-eastern Svalbard, around 1,000km from the North Pole.
- “Its occupants are said to have spotted a polar bear sleeping on land,” the governor of the territory said in a statement.
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- OSLO – A person in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic has been fined 50,000 kroner (S$6,770) for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear, local officials said on Aug 13.
- The incident took place earlier in August when a vessel was sailing in a fjord in north-eastern Svalbard, around 1,000km from the North Pole.
- “Its occupants are said to have spotted a polar bear sleeping on land,” the governor of the territory said in a statement.
Sources: Straitstimes