69NORD SOMMARØY OUTDOOR CENTER

Activities or accommodations in Sommarøy & Tromsø

Guest house Tromsø downtown Gunnar & Valentina. They speak many languages.

Sommarøy Arctic Hotel

Rooms for more independant accommodation

Grocery, Post Office

Taxi, bus

Snack, bar, lunch

Fishing and sightseing with motor boat : Sommarøy Cruise AS and Camp Sommarøy AS

Little parc with animals, nice for kids

Outdoor activities parc

69 NORD AS is a member of

AECO: Association of Expedition Cruise Operator
http://www.aeco.no

CCFN: French/Norwegian Chambre of Commerce
http://www.ccfn.no

Tromsø Chambre of Commerce
http://www.nftr.no/

ISSA: International Sailing School Association
http://www.sailingschools.org/

Geography

NORWAY
Charts of Norway including Svalbard with a very efficient zoom in function. http://www.visitnorway.com/
Webcam all over Norway including Spitsbergen (Longyearbyen, Ny Ålesund),
http://www.webcamsennorvege.com

Place names in Norwegian Polar areas: http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn

TROMSØ

Tromsø’s tourism office.
visittromso.no
Some informations in english about Tromso and surrounding area .
http://www.nord-troms.no

Webcam on top of the cable car in Tronsø, nice view towards the city.
http://www.fjellheisen.no

LYNGEN ALPS

http://home.online.no/~hijman/lyngen_t.htm
http://www.lyngen.net/english/

SPITSBERGEN

http://www.svalbard.net

http://cruise-handbook.npolar.no/en/
The site of the governor of Svalbard
http://www.sysselmannen.svalbard.no/

Goosemap Svalbard: http://goosemap.nina.no/

Svalbardflora: http://svalbardflora.net/

WEATHER, CLIMATOLOGY , ICE CONDITIONS

Norwegian polar institute.
http://www.npolar.no

Norvegian Weather Institute.
http://www.yr.no

University of Tromsø, local weather.
http://weather.cs.uit.no

American National Ice Center
http://www.natice.noaa.go

A very up to date site for global warming effect.
http://www.nilu.no/niluweb/services/zeppelin/

Images related to ice concentration in the Arctic.
http://www.weatherimages.org/

The Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) was founded in 1986 as an independent non-profit environmental research institute affiliated with the University of Bergen
http://fram.nrsc.no/bilder/JRC/north_east_passage.html

Canadian ice center.
http://www.cis.ec.gc.ca/fr/accueil.html

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
http://www.aari.nw.ru/index_en.html

PUBLISHERS

Editions TRANSBOREAL
“La voie des Glaces”
http://www.transboréal.fr

Production documentaire “La route du pôle”
http://www.yentaproduction.com

Patagonia and Terria del Fuego nautical guide.
Chilean and Argentine coasts from Valdivia to Mar del Plata including Isla de los Estados and Cabo de Hornos. In english. 720 pages.
http:// www.capehorn-pilot.com

EXPEDITIONS, POLE AND MARINE RELATED WEBSITES

Expédition Around North America 2008
https://www.69nord.com/expe/index.html
links from the expedition « Around North America 2008-09 » :https://www.69nord.com/expe/lien.html

Expédition circumpolaire de Vagabond
http://piem.org/vagabond/
http://transpolair.com

NAUSICAA
http://www.nausicaa.fr/

International Polar Foundation
http://www.polarfoundation.org

Under the Pole : Diving and pulka expédition
http://www.underthepole.com/

Arnaud Tortel Expedition / Nouvelle Terre : la première jonction à pied du continent américain et du continent européen en passant par le Pôle Nord géographique.
http://arnaudtortel.com/

EMBASSIES

Norwegian Embassy in Paris.
http://www.amb-norvege.fr/

French Embassy in Oslo.
http://www.ambafrance-no.org/

French honorar consul in Tromsø
Laurence Frémion / france.tromso@online.no / 00 47 979 66 030

CHANGE RATES

Currency exchange rates. Online converter.
http://www.oanda.com

Our Friends’ websites

Guest House Tromsø Downtown Gunnar & Valentina speak many languages, have a huge sense of the hospitality and their location is just ideal to discover the “Little Paris of the North”