The Arctic Academy is a company specialised in tourism services, offering
unique Northern Lights programmes at Luosto. The company’s operations are based
on expertise acquired in various special fields. The most important activity
undertaken by the Arctic Academy is the production of unique Northern Lights
programmes, and the people behind this are aurora borealis researchers Esa
Turunen and Jyrki Manninen of the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory.
Northern Lights viewings and hunts are arranged in wintertime for groups (per
order) at Luosto and the company’s fixed base, the Aurora House, called Pohjan
Kruunu in finnish, (distance 38 km by car from Luosto, only 25 km by
snowmobile). In summertime, Pohjan Kruunu is open Tuesdays to Sundays between
12am to 4.30pm. Snowshoeing adventures and instruction in cross-country skiing
at Luosto are managed by a team of two powerful ladies: Taina Itkonen and Raili
Turunen. In addition to Olympic and World Championship medals, their joint list
of achievements also includes medal positions in Finnish Championships, in
skiing, wilderness hiking and the Finlandia 100 km race.