Norway's Banak search-and-rescue base went live in Q1 of this year, marking the first permanent operating location for the AW101 inside the Arctic Circle.
June was "3rd warmest on record" miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Unprecedented 32.5C in the Arctic Circle during month of smashed global temperature records iwradio.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iwradio.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Temperatures surpassed 30 degrees Celsius across northern Scandinavia on Wednesday and many metrological stations hit new record high temperatures for June.
The thermometer in Saltdal, northern Norway, reached 31,6°C. Further inside the Arctic Circle, at 69 degrees north in Skibotn east of Tromsø