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Passenger fined $5,000 for waking polar bear with foghorn in Svalbard

Published 14 August 2026

A passenger aboard a vessel in Norway's Svalbard archipelago has been fined 50,000 Norwegian kroner, approximately $5,000, for deliberately sounding a ship's horn to wake a sleeping polar bear.

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