A person in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic has been fined $5,255 for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear, local officials said Thursday.
The incident took place earlier this month when a vessel was sailing in a fjord in northeastern Svalbard, around 620 miles from the North Pole.
“Its occupants are said to have spotted a polar bear sleeping on land,” the governor of the territory said in a statement.
“A person on board then used the ship’s foghorn,…
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