#192 - Rogue Explorer Discovers Mysterious 'Ghost Nation' Inside Europe | Eric Czuleger

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

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0:00.0	I was in the Arctic right before.
0:10.2	What?
0:11.2	Yeah, yeah, I just came back from Svalbard, which is like...
0:15.7	Where's that?
0:16.2	It's in the Arctic Circle.
0:18.6	So it's like the last point that there is an inhabited, like, city.
0:26.3	I mean, it's a town, a really tiny town, before you get to the North Pole.
0:29.8	So it's, like, the only place that you can sort of set off in an expedition from the North Pole or to the North Pole.
0:37.5	Okay. And it's not, like the North Pole or to the North Pole. Okay.
0:38.0	And it's not, like, it has some relationship with Norway, but it's not technically a part of
0:43.3	Norway.
0:44.2	Um, so you actually like cross out of the border of Norway to get to Svalbard.
0:49.0	Um, and there's like one tiny town there that's like mostly a coal mining town and scientific research but like
0:56.3	it's crazy like the sun never sets there so whoa yeah so any cool people there oh yeah the town was
1:03.3	dope i was i mean and you meet everybody within like the first 15 minutes that you're there
1:10.2	because it's that tiny.
1:11.8	Oh shit.
1:13.0	So like we were up there.
1:15.8	I sort of convinced my buddies to go and do a marathon
1:22.9	in Svalbard, which is like the northernmost marathon
1:26.3	in the entire world.
1:29.5	And it's the only one with polar bear guards.
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