Tourist fined 900 for getting too close to a walrus in Norway | World News [Video]

A tourist has been fined the equivalent of £900 for getting to close to a walrus in Arctic Norway.

Members of the public saw the man walk out onto an ice floe in the Svalberg Archipeligo on Wednesday where he ‘disturbed a walrus that was lying the ice’, say authorities.

It is against the law to cause unnecessary disturbance to wildlife in Svalberg, which lies halfway between the northern coast of mainland Norway and the North Pole.

After being reported to authorities, the man, from Poland, was taken to the governor’s office and fined 12,500 Norwegian Kroner

He accepted the penalty and paid it, the BBC reports.

‘The governor encourages everyone to keep a good distance from walruses so that they are not disturbed and so that no danger to people occur,’ the governor’s office said in a statement.

Police prosecutor Magnus Rindal Fredriksen said the incident happened ‘very close to Longyearbyen, at …