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Fossil fiend: Tourist detained at Svalbard Airport for trying to smuggle bones from marine mammal

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A man in his 50s is facing criminal charges and a fine after officials found skeleton parts from a marine mammal during a luggage check at Svalbard Airport, according to The Governor of Svalbard.

Officials conducted the search before a flight departed Wednesday after receiving a tip from a tour operator that a visitor had taken bone pieces from a beach, said Police Chief. Lt. Vidar Arnesen in a prepared statement.

“We did not find anything on the basis of that specific tip, but in the luggage of another visitor we found vertebrates from a marine mammal,” he said.

The Svalbard Environmental Protection Act prohibits the removal of animals or animal parts from the archipelago. Arnesen told NRK most tourists are familiar with the regulation, but there have been other attempts to smuggle animal parts.

“The purpose is that we want an almost untouched environment here and that everyone who visits Svalbard will have the same experience,” he said.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.
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