Show arctic circle flower garden A flower garden in spitsbergen bounds like an anomaly being within the arctic circle A party of british travelers struck with the beauty of a plateau called it the flower garden ever after it was in the nineties of last century and the party that of sir martin conway landing in midsummer on one of the headlands by bay they were impressed with the deep water clear as crystal the ma nelous wealth of a weed the splendor of a great glacier and the sharp blue acas 0 the mountains separating glacier from glacier while in another direction over advent point colled wreaths ot ragged clouds added to it all was a carpet of flowers andromeda baxa frages and dryas so the flower garden was actual after all |