Dale Fife (1)

Foreward: The story of twelve-year-old Aren Kristiansen, n the Achipelago of Svalbard, is a fictionalized account of a true incident. Svalbard, more often called Spitsbergen, lies within the Arctic Ocean approximately ten degrees, or four hundred nautical miles, from the North Pole. It is under the sovereignty of Norway. In August of 1940, British warships stood in Advent Bay off Longyearbyen, the capital. Their mission was to evacuate the entire population, some three thousand people, most show more of them coal miners and their families. The German Army, which had already taken over Norway, was expected to invade Spitsbergen to cut off the shipment of polar coal to Europe and to destroy or take over weather and radio stations critically necessary for the safety of Allied shipping. Unknown to the authorities, one person, Arne Kristiansen, was left behind. This is the story of what happened after the ships moved out of the harbour and the long dark polar winter was about to close down.

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Bored, Lincoln and Wilbur start a newspaper. It causes a sensation because some people don't like Lincoln's curious way of reporting what he sees and hears.