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Travel: Svalbard Photos

A worker at the Northern Lights observatory carries a gun Feb. 27, 2008, outside Longyearbyen, Norway on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. No one ventures outside city limits without a gun due to the heavy presence of polar bears in the area.

(Photo: AP Photo/John McConnico)

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