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Svalbard is an archipelago situated at about half way between continental Norway and the North Pole, and it is an outpost for research and exploration on the arctic. In Longyearbyen, a little city with a population of about 2000 and Svalbard capital, there is UNIS, University Center in Svalbard: this is the world’s northernmost institution for higher education and research.  There’s plenty of science to be investigated during an eclipse. One of the most relevant historical examples is the \href{http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1920RSPTA.220..291D}{linktextmeasurement \href{http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1920RSPTA.220..291D}{measurement  of the deflection of light by the Sun}, performed by Sir Arthur Eddington in 1919 during a total solar eclipse. Such experiment demonstrated that the sun was indeed deflecting the light, as some predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.  Science during the Eclipse