Norwegian Sea

We have seen, so just this last April, there was a Russian operation to try to cut off the undersea infrastructure that connects Svalbard Island to Norway.

Svalbard is a Norwegian territory that's out in the Norwegian Sea between Norway and Greenland in the Arctic.

And it's a main listening post for the Norwegians who keep track of the Russians.

But it's also a listening post that communicates with our polar satellites.

A medida que se intensificaba la transmisión de la antena furtiva, una pantalla montada en la pared sobre nosotros mostraba la zona en Google Maps.

Poco a poco, el indicador que se alaba nuestra ubicación se desplazaba de forma engañosa hacia el Mar de Noruega.

Gradually, the indicator that was praises our location.

It was moving in a deceptive way towards the Norwegian Sea.

Poco a poco, el indicador que se alaba nuestra ubicación se desplazaba de forma engañosa hacia el Mar de Noruega.

Fuente de la imagen: Getty Images.

El impacto en los relojes era difícil de percibir sin equipos complejos.

So one of the things I would say is that Here, we are increasingly worried about subsea critical infrastructure and really what challenge Russia poses.

And that will start in the North Sea, the English Channel, but it will go all the way up to the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea, and yet again, places like the Bear Gap.

are assuming ever greater strategic interest, shall we say, in the UK.

And as you know, we have a very special relationship with Norway in defence and security matters.

Svalbard sits roughly 1300 kilometres from the North Pole.

If you were to draw a line from London straight north, passing over Scotland, over the Shetland Islands, over the Norwegian Sea, you would reach Svalbard before you were even halfway to the pole.

The archipelago is governed by Norway under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty of 1920, which grants Norway sovereignty while allowing citizens of signatory nations certain rights of access and economic activity.

In practice, what this means is that the islands are home to a small, permanent, international community clustered primarily around the settlement of Longyearbyen, which with a population of roughly 2,000 people, is one of the northernmost permanent communities on Earth.