The northern lights dance over the Spitsbergen Hotel in Longyearbyen, Norway, on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, as far north as you can fly on a scheduled flight. At about 78 degrees north latitude, it is less than 620 miles from the North Pole.

First published in the March 14, 2008, 10:48 a.m. edition

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