Longyearbyen, Norway

Longyearbyen, the largest community on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, has a population of around 1100 people (and about that many snowmobiles).

Located in the Advent fjord, at the entrance of the Advent valley, this town has all the amenities of a larger city - and - the world's most northern newspaper (the Svalbardposten).

When fall arrives, so do the miners and their families who return to work in the coal mines.  (It's dark during that part of the year.) 

But there is something else on this island - something which doctors had hoped would help provide answers about the killer Spanish-Flu virus. 

Bodies of flu victims, who died during World War One, are buried at Longyearbyen.