Lars Fause

Norwegian lawyer

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Aug 13
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.