The video shows the oddly chosen yet strategically significant
Svalbard, Norway, which is located in the Arctic circle. Many
strange things continue to happen here. It’s one of the world’s
major climate research sites, where scientists measure the
impacts from climate changes. The bizarre Svalbard Global Seed
vault is also located here. Oddly, from about 1944 to the
mid-60s, millions and millions of tons of pollutive coal
continuously burned in open pits - the military left the island
during the end of WW-II and forgot to put the fires out. Even
stranger is that a handful of German troops were the last
soldiers to surrender WW-II, four months after the war had
ended. Svalbard has a truly strange history. The ice has been
melting across the islands as well as across the North Pole.
This opened up new and fabled shipping routes and has
governments scrambling to chop up the newly exposed lands for
natural resources, such as coal, gold, and diamonds. After
Russia planted a flag on the sea floor to claim land in t