Barentsøya

Posted on 27. July 2014 by Rolf Stange

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27 Jul
2014

A dark landscape, and dark weather. It fits nicely together, in a way. A Sunday morning on Barentsøya. We paid a visit to the local gospel choir, which produced an arctic symphony from thousand beaks with a lot of gusto.

There is hardly a more lush tundra than here in the southeast, on Barentsøya and Edgeøya. You could probably keep sheep here. Someone is already doing it. The sheep have got antlers here.

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And if these sheep-reindeer have really got bad luck, then their antlers get entangled in plastic ropes and nets carelessly thrown away from fishing vessels. Such as the 3 or 4 reindeer whose antlers we found as a big knot wound up with green plastic rope. Parts of the skulls were still attached to the antlers. Shame on zivilisation! The idea that most likely a polar bear shortened the suffering from weeks down to days (only … only days! We are talking of really terrible suffering!) does not really make the thought more bearable.

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