The Arctic north, planned around the dark. Winter trips here are built so the long nights are the point: aurora hunts, the Barents Sea coast and the ice.

The largest country on earth, across eleven time zones. Moscow and St Petersburg are the half everyone pictures; the Kola Peninsula, above the Arctic Circle, is the other.

Murmansk is the largest city north of the Arctic Circle, and its harbour stays free of ice all winter. From early December to mid January, the sun does not rise.

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