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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Miranda Bryant in Stockholm

‘Wonderful experience’: Researcher’s close encounter with Svalbard polar bears

Three polar bears standing outside the window of a room containing several board game boxes, binoculars and a stuffed white toy
A female polar bear and her two cubs peer into the Polish research station in Hornsund. Photograph: Katarzyna Kudłacz

Katarzyna Kudłacz was preparing a breakfast of scrambled eggs at a research station on Svalbard when she looked up to see she had three unexpected guests.

Shocked and in awe, the meteorologist immediately alerted her colleagues to the female polar bear and her two cubs peering into the Polish research station in Hornsund, in the south of the Norwegian archipelago, their noses pressed up against the window.

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