The ship was featured in a TV show in 2011 when its voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes was broadcast live for 134 hours, non-stop. The show entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest uninterrupted live television documentary. ...
the Germans stationed some of its biggest war ships in Northern Norway. In 1943, the mining towns and settlements in Svalbard were bombed and ruined by these ships. At the battle of the North Cape on Boxing Day 1943, the German battleship “Scharnhorst” was sunk, killing 2000 men. The ...