It typically opens at the beginning of April for three to four weeks but as the month draws to a close, the ice is usually no longer stable enough to support the camp
Around 300 people are stranded in Svalbard, after the North Pole was closed to visitors for the first time in 18 years over tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
The camp was scheduled to open on April 1, but the Ukrainian pilots and crew were not given permission to fly, a move linked to rumbling discontent over the war in eastern Ukraine, according to local media reports.
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