Culture
Bear Island has a club for nude dippers ("Bjørnøya nakenbadeforening"), with a little over 3,000 members. To qualify for membership one has to take a naked dip (head under water) and the event must be witnessed by someone of the opposite sex. Among the members are Knut Storberget (a former Norwegian minister of justice), Guy Stumm and Kristin Krohn Devold (a former Norwegian minister of defence). The sea temperature is around 4 °C (39 °F).
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