Site of the week: White-bea­ked dol­phin

The new site of the week at spitsbergen-svalbard.com is a recent­ly crea­ted site about the White-bea­ked dol­phin. Dol­phins are not exact­ly what you intui­tively expect in the arc­tic, so it is qui­te sur­pri­sing to learn of many the­re actual­ly are. But not on the coas­tal waters and fjords of Spits­ber­gen, rather in the open Bar­ents Sea. In recent years, I have regu­lar­ly done the cros­sing from Nor­way to Bear Island and Spits­ber­gen in the begin­ning of the arc­tic ship­ping boat sea­son. The abundance of wha­les and dol­phins in the Bar­ents Sea has always ama­zed me. White-bea­ked dol­phins are the nort­hern­most repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of the dol­phin fami­ly.

Click here to get to the new site of the week.

By the way, my new book is in print and it can now be orde­red 🙂 it is a pho­to book with the tit­le “Nor­we­gens ark­ti­scher Nor­den (1): Spitz­ber­gen – vom Polar­licht bis zur Mit­ter­nachts­son­ne”, with Ger­man text Click here for fur­ther details!