What is Svalbard in fiction?
[[Novelist|Novelists]], [[screenwriters]] and [[Filmmaker|filmmakers]] have set their works in '''[[Svalbard]]''', an [[archipelago]] in the [[Arctic]] which is the northernmost part of [[Norway]]. Fictional works about Svalbard often make reference to its [[Arctic climate]], the [[isolation]] of the [[archipelago]] and the natural beauty of its vast [[glacier]]s, [[Mountain|mountains]] and [[Fjord|fjords]]. ==Novels== ''North of Danger'', by [[Dale Hollerbach Fife]], is a [[World War II]] story about a 12-year-old boy living in Svalbard who has to hide in a [[coal mine]] to avoid being caught by the [[Nazism|Nazi]] invaders. The Commonwealth Club of California called ''North of Danger'' the best juvenile book of 1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-12-28/news/17522159_1_san-francisco-zoo-sumatran-orangutan-waitresses/4|title='',+by+Dale+Hollerbach+Fife&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca DEATHS IN 2003: People we'll miss / Bay Area memories / Famous or not, these folks had impact on the communities they called home - Page 4 - SFGate''|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ''[[Bear Island (novel)|Bear Island]]'' is a 1971 thriller novel by Scottish author [[Alistair MacLean]]. It is about a movie crew who travels to Svalbard. When the group arrives in Svalbard, members of the crew start to get killed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://passionforcinema.com/there-is-something-about-alistair-mclean/|title=There is something about Alistair McLean|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Norwegian crime writer and glacier expert [[Monica Kristensen]] has written a novel set in Svalbard entitled ''Operation Fritham''. The novel tells the story of a group of World War II veterans who meet in Svalbard to remember [[Operation Fritham]]. This was a 1942 Norwegian military operation which aimed to capture the coal mines so that Nazi Germany could not use the coal. The elderly [[soldier]]<nowiki/>s do not real