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Lars Fause

Lars Fause

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    Svalbard fines person 50,000 kroner for waking sleeping polar bear with ship horn

    A person was fined 50,000 Norwegian kroner (about 4,550 euros) on 13 August 2026 for using a ship's fog horn to wake a sleeping polar bear in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, roughly 1,000 kilometres from the North Pole.

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