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From Raud­fjord to Kross­fjord – 29th Sep­tem­ber 2015

Final­ly with Zodiacs into inner Hamil­ton­buk­ta, haven’t been the­re for a while! And things the­re have chan­ged, mea­ning the gla­ciers have retrea­ted con­sider­a­b­ly. I have to find some old pho­tos to compa­re. A lot of rocks now whe­re the­re used to be gla­ciers 10 years ago.

Hamil­ton­buk­ta 29th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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This doesn’t mean that it is not nice any­mo­re. Quite the oppo­si­te, the gla­ciers are still stun­nin­gly beau­tiful. A lot of ice drif­ting in the bay. And on the­se small islands, you can still enjoy life in gene­ral and the beau­ty of the sce­n­ery. Very nice.

The next low pres­su­re was alre­a­dy on the way. We had deci­ded to make a quick jump down to Kongsfjord, esca­ping befo­re desas­ter would strike. A swift crui­se through Nord­ves­tøya­ne and Smee­ren­burg­fjord. Wat­ching the baro­me­ter was inte­res­t­ing. In 3 days, it had drop­ped by 54 hPa. A simi­lar drop on the finan­cial mar­kets would send shock­wa­ves around the glo­bes. But this was only the baro­me­ter.

Hamil­ton­buk­ta 29th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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The­re was quite a bit of swell off the coast, swell from hell, that was not so gre­at, and some were not seen for a cou­ple of hours. But at least, final­ly the nor­t­hern wind came and up went the sails, making the move­ment more sta­ble and com­for­ta­ble. In the late evening, we rea­ched Kross­fjord and a reason­ab­ly well shel­te­red ancho­ra­ge.

The nor­thwest shows off, part II – 28th Sep­tem­ber 2015

As men­tio­ned, this was not all this day should bring. We were thin­king about a litt­le late after­noon landing, hoping to find a reason­ab­ly shel­te­red spot. We for­got about that quick­ly. The wind was one aspect. Admit­ted­ly, when I saw the wind blo­wing out of the bay and on to the shore of our envi­sa­ged landing site, I was alre­a­dy thin­king how to get out of it again. But that was not even neces­sa­ry. Sud­den­ly a polar bear was seen wal­king on the slo­pe not far from the place and that attrac­ted of cour­se ever­y­bo­dies atten­ti­on. It wal­ked along the coast, we inde­ed a lone­so­me wal­rus was lying, pas­sing it within a few met­res initi­al­ly wit­hout pay­ing atten­ti­on (is it real­ly pos­si­ble that he was not awa­re of it to begin with?). Then he reco­gni­zed it, made some steps towards it, pro­ba­b­ly hoping for a big meal, but the wal­rus demons­tra­ted with a quick move­ment of its migh­ty tusks that this might be a bad idea.

Pho­to Fla­t­hu­ken 28th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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The bear con­tin­ued and it was kind enough to do so in an area whe­re Joa­chim could maneou­vre the Anti­gua reason­ab­ly clo­se to the shore. It was cer­tain­ly clo­se enough for me, other­wi­se I would have had to remo­ve the tele con­ver­ter … the final high­light of the day was a stun­ning set of sun­set colours abo­ve an ama­zing sce­n­ery. So now the day is over. The second day of the trip, and it could not have been bet­ter!

Pho­to Raud­fjord 28th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Now we are curious about tomor­row. Even more wind is expec­ted – we shall see.

The nor­thwest shows off, part I – 28th Sep­tem­ber 2015

As men­tio­ned befo­re, we were curious what the day would bring. Essen­ti­al­ly, we were pre­pared for a lot of wind. Which we got. And a lot more.

We had done the who­le stretch from sou­thern For­lands­und to the nor­thwest during the night under sails, nice­ly with the squa­res, calm and no strong lis­ting, very plea­sant.

Pho­to Vir­go­ham­na 28th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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Con­side­ring the strong sou­t­her­ly wind, Vir­go­ham­na was a natu­ral choice. Start­ing with tel­ling the rele­vant sto­ries the­re in some details, other­wi­se all you see the­re is a pile of rub­bish. With the sto­ries of the expe­di­ti­ons of Andrée and Well­man on your mind, it is sud­den­ly a Mek­ka of polar histo­ry. Also some har­bour seals were pre­sent.

Oppo­si­te in Smee­ren­burg, a group of wal­rus­ses were hau­led out on the beach, but the wind did not lea­ve a chan­ce for a landing. We had to make do with a reason­ab­ly clo­se pas­sa­ge by ship, which tur­ned out to be fine.

Pho­to Vir­go­ham­na 28th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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Then, we con­tin­ued into Fuglefjord. Grand pan­ora­ma, moun­ta­ins, gla­ciers. Spits­ber­gen has got its name for a reason, this beca­me clear again here.

Svitjod­breen has retrea­ted stron­gly in recent years. A rock that came out under the gla­cier some years ago is now an island. First mate Moritz was so kind to put me ashore for a moment to take a 360 degree pan­ora­ma pho­to – may­be I am the first one to have set foot on the island? You should never say or even think that you are the first one to have done some­thing in Spits­ber­gen. The­re has always been someone who was ear­lier out, it won’t be any dif­fe­rent here. But the pos­si­bi­li­ty as such is a nice thought.

Pho­to Fuglefjord 28th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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But that was not the point. Taking the 360 degree pan­ora­ma was the thing for me. To the delight of ever­y­bo­dy on board, as they had me for sca­le on the island in front of the gla­cier. Mean­while, Moritz was biding his time in the Zodiac by rea­ding my Spits­ber­gen book! That is hard to see in the pan­ora­ma, but I loved the idea. The result can soon be seen on this web­site. I am pret­ty sure it is the first 360 degree pan­ora­ma taken the­re. Not a bad thing. Click here to see the result.

The­re was more to come today. More about that later.

For­lands­und – 27th Sep­tem­ber 2015

A day in Lon­gye­ar­by­en, which can at least par­ti­al­ly be spent with doing not­hing, is always a good thing. So yes­ter­day we could start again with fresh moti­va­ti­on and ener­gy.

A calm day in For­lands­und, with light snow­fall we walk over the coas­tal plain bet­ween Isfjord and St. Jons­fjord. Love­ly coas­tal sce­n­ery, reinde­er ant­lers, ever­y­thing cover­ed with a thin fresh white lay­er.

Pho­to Eidem­buk­ta 27th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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The Poo­le­pyn­ten Swim­ming Club is some­whe­re else, but Dah­l­breen pres­ents its­elf with colours that somehow dis­play an ama­zing com­bi­na­ti­on of soft­ness and inten­si­ty. Beau­tiful, clear light.

Pho­to Dah­l­breen 27th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Spits­ber­gen seems to switch from autumn to win­ter now. We will pro­ba­b­ly get quite a bit of wind for some days, start­ing tonight. Could be good sai­ling wind. We are quite curious what the upco­ming days will bring.

Isfjord – 24th Sep­tem­ber 2015

The last day of this trip with landings, incre­di­ble. For a while, you think you still have got the who­le voya­ge ahead of you, and then the days are sud­den­ly fly­ing.

Today, first thing is to find a good play­ground for the gla­cier group. Ide­al­ly some crev­as­ses in easy ter­rain, so Falk can install some ice screws and ropes and peo­p­le can rope down. We find a good spot on Esmark­breen and it works well, ever­y­bo­dy is later coming back with a smi­le on their face.

The tun­dra group is taking a more silent approach, hiking 6-7 kilo­me­t­res over morai­nes, wet­lands and tun­dra on Erd­mann­flya, enjoy­ing the pan­ora­ma, some reinde­er encoun­ters, the soft colours of the autumn tun­dra and thin­king a bit about the immense time sca­le of earth histo­ry. A 46 m long rope makes it easy to get a good idea of it.

We cross Isfjord under full sail. What a beau­tiful view! Com­pared to that, some other ships look like floa­ting green­hou­ses …

For our last landing in Coles­buk­ta, natu­re has tur­ned the light on again, full power, tur­ning the old, long-aban­do­ned Rus­si­an sett­le­ment into an arc­tic red light quar­ter. Too beau­tiful for a lot of tal­king. I wan­ted to talk about the histo­ry of the Rus­si­an sett­le­ments in Spits­ber­gen and the Spits­ber­gen trea­ty, but that does not real­ly work. Colours and light are just too breath­ta­king.

Gal­lery Isfjord – 24th Sep­tem­ber 2015

Click on thumb­nail to open an enlar­ged ver­si­on of the spe­ci­fic pho­to.

In the later evening, we go along­side in Lon­gye­ar­by­en.

Kongsfjord – 23rd Sep­tem­ber 2015

I was curious what the day would bring. The first view through the port­ho­le, just befo­re 6 a.m., was not too pro­mi­sing. Litt­le but low clouds.
But what the day brought can easi­ly live up to the series of memo­rable days that we have had. The wild ice land­scape of one of few advan­cing gla­ciers in the area; crev­as­sed ice and a young morai­ne land­scape.

At the same time, a polar bear was roa­ming around on Blom­strand; not an ever­day event. Later, it went into the water, cir­cling around and obvious­ly loo­king for seals – a polar bear hun­ting in the water is not an ever­y­day sight eit­her, alt­hough it did not get any­thing. Later, it went ashore again, so we could see it in all its powerful beau­ty from a good distance. A male bear in good shape, wit­hout any marks from sci­en­tists, which is quite a tre­at.

Click on thumb­nail to open an enlar­ged ver­si­on of the spe­ci­fic pho­to.

A visit to one of the small islands in Kongsfjord was to round the day up. A landing the­re is some­thing spe­cial in its­elf; the islands are a bird sanc­tua­ry and clo­sed during the sum­mer. A silent fire­work of calm colours and details and an asto­nis­hin­gly beau­tiful view on the sur­roun­ding pan­ora­ma of moun­ta­ins and gla­ciers in evening light.

Kross­fjord – 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2015

The bad wea­ther day that we had been anti­ci­pa­ting the who­le time tur­ned out to be not too bad. Time for some lec­tures to start with. Later, we got both a landing – not the season’s lon­gest one, but a nice litt­le walk – and even some good wha­le wat­ching. A fin wha­le, fee­ding in Kross­fjord. I can ima­gi­ne a worse bad wea­ther day!

Pho­to Fjor­ten­de Juli­buk­ta – 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Pho­to Kross­fjord – 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Kross­fjord – 21st Sep­tem­ber 2015

The long trip from Wood­fjord to Kross­fjord went quicker and smoot­her than expec­ted, we were men­tal­ly pre­pared for some wind and sea, which did not hap­pen, but who would mind? Alt­hough, the wea­ther did chan­ge. The clouds were low abo­ve Lil­lie­höök­breen, with some fresh snow on the sur­roun­ding moun­ta­ins. A com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent atmo­sphe­re.

Pho­to Lil­lie­hook­breen 21. Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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The­re was also fresh snow on the car­pet of lichens and mos­ses in Sig­ne­ham­na. A reinde­er skull with big ant­lers was lying on the tun­dra, the for­mer owner pro­ba­b­ly now spread over a wide area. The remains of the war wea­ther sta­ti­ons Knos­pe and Nuss­baum almost in twi­light under fog-like clouds and light snow­fall, which is quite appro­pria­te, con­side­ring this dark chap­ter of the regio­nal histo­ry, and quite aes­the­ti­cal at the same time.

Pho­to Lil­lie­hook­breen 21. Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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Also the many ber­gy bits in Fjor­ten­de Juli­buk­ta have their aes­the­ti­cal value. We are curious what tomor­row will bring. Accor­ding to the wea­ther fore­cast, it might be a cosy day on the ship.

Pho­to Sig­ne­ham­na 21. Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Mona­co­b­reen – 20th Sep­tem­ber 2015

The shared gla­cier front of Mona­co­b­reen and Seli­ger­breen does not exist any­mo­re. It has retrea­ted so much that the moun­tain Stortingspre­si­den­ten rea­ches the shore and sepa­ra­tes the form­er­ly shared gla­cier front into two sepa­ra­te ones. Which does not make the who­le sce­n­ery less impres­si­ve. High ice walls, thun­de­ring cal­vings, count­less ice­bergs with shapes and colours no human being could invent. Young kit­ti­wa­kes con­fu­se novice bird­wat­chers. Mean­while, the gla­cier hikers are play­ing in the crev­as­se fields of Mona­co­b­reen.

Pho­to Horn­baek­pol­len 20. Sep­tem­ber 2015

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A polar bear in Ler­nerøya­ne makes a pro­mi­sing appearance just to dis­ap­pear behind a rocky ridge as we get clo­ser. So now we are calm­ly sai­ling – yes, under sail – up Wood­fjord in beau­tiful evening light.

Pho­to Mona­co­b­reen – 20th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Pho­to Wood­fjord – 20th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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Pho­to Wood­fjord – 20th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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Wal­rus-mad­ness on Mof­fen – 19th Sep­tem­ber 2015

Mof­fen is this small, for­bidden island north of Spits­ber­gen. Not much more than a gra­vel bank, a beach atoll around a lagoon whe­re wha­lers used to anchor in their days. The ent­rance to the lagoon does not exist any­mo­re today.

Mof­fen is known and pro­tec­ted becau­se of its wal­rus colo­ny, each sum­mer it is for­bidden to land the­re until mid sep­tem­ber. Good for tho­se last mohi­cans who are still around in the late sea­son. Espe­ci­al­ly when the wea­ther is as coope­ra­ti­ve as today. Calm air, calm water, the landing on the expo­sed island is a pie­ce of cake. Soon, we get a visit from some curious wal­rus­ses, and that is how a good part of the mor­ning goes. A group of them is swim­ming up and down the beach clo­se to us, some­ti­mes busy with them­sel­ves, some­ti­mes focus­sing their atten­ti­on on us, curious­ly coming out of the water and approa­ching us to an ama­zin­gly clo­se distance. Ano­ther big group, sure­ly around a hundred ani­mals, is res­t­ing on shore near the sou­thern tip of the island. Near­by, the­re is a wal­rus gra­vey­ard, whe­re they were slaugh­te­red in huge num­bers in ear­lier cen­tu­ries for their ivo­ry tusks, the blub­ber and the strong skin.

Pho­to Wal­rus-mad­ness on Mof­fen – 19th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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As we lea­ve Mof­fen, the­re are seve­ral big bags of pla­s­tic gar­ba­ge less on the island than befo­re. Among­st others, we have found an elec­tri­cal coo­ling box, may­be from the Eng­lish yacht that went on rocks north of Ytre Nor­skøya (may­be it was near­by Fug­le­san­gen, doesn’t mat­ter) and went down? The two sail­ors sur­vi­ved, but it was quite clo­se. And unneces­sa­ry, the shal­lows the­re are well char­ted.

Pho­to Wal­rus-mad­ness on Mof­fen – 19th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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Some hours later, we have rea­ched Lief­defjord. To our gre­at plea­su­re, we find a polar bear that is res­t­ing on the tun­dra on a small island, just occa­sio­nal­ly lif­ting its head, stan­ding up once just to lay down again soon. Cap­tain Joa­chim maneou­vres the Anti­gua ama­zin­gly clo­se to the shore. A beau­tiful encoun­ter, and as we lea­ve, the bear is lying and res­t­ing the very same way as when we came.

Pho­to Andoya­ne – 19th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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We take the time for a litt­le late after­noon stroll on one of the neigh­bou­ring islands, and then we sail to a nice, pro­tec­ted bay to anchor for the night.

Wal­rus­ses and Har­bour seals – 18th Sep­tem­ber 2015

It would be nice to see some wild­life today. Spits­ber­gen is not a zoo, but it is allo­wed to have some hopes. And some­ti­mes one is lucky. So were we today. The wal­rus­ses on Ams­ter­damøya were the­re just as we had been hoping for. The fox the­re was even bet­ter. It had been hiding and slee­ping under a big old wha­le­bo­ne, and I had been stan­ding next to it for a while wit­hout see­ing it – and sud­den­ly it was the­re and went its way.

Pho­to Smee­ren­burg – 18th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Also the har­bour seals were at home just as we had been hoping for. Spits­ber­gen can be a fri­end­ly place.

Pho­to Vir­go­ham­na – 18th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Ytre Nor­skøya can also be fri­end­ly, but usual­ly it isn’t. Usual­ly, the­re is a strong wind blo­wing, low clouds, a polar bear on the beach, or some­thing like that.

Pho­to Ytre Nor­skoya – 18th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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Not that we would mind see­ing a polar bear, but the­re was none today. So we went up Zeeussche Uyt­kyk, the old wha­lers’ loo­kout point with a free view to the north pole.

Pho­to Ytre Nor­skoya – 18th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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Mag­da­le­nefjord – 17th Sep­tem­ber 2015

The day beg­ins as beau­tiful­ly as the last one ends. Mag­da­le­ne­jord in mor­ning light, belts of drif­ting gla­cier ice in the sun, you have to have seen that. Did I wri­te some­thing like that befo­re recent­ly? Doesn’t mat­ter, it is just right. Sun­beams coming like spot­lights through the gaps bet­ween moun­ta­ins, pain­ting dots of light on moun­tain slo­pes, gla­ciers and the pen­in­su­la Grav­ne­set, love­ly.

Pho­to Grav­ne­set – 17th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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Later it is time to get the cram­pons out. The­re is this nice gla­cier in Smee­ren­burg­fjord, gent­le and wit­hout crev­as­ses, easi­ly acces­si­ble, sur­roun­ded by jag­ged moun­ta­ins, good stuff.

Pho­to Schei­buk­ta – 17th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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And it is just as good to stay at anchor, silent and calm, a fros­ty night, evening red glo­wing abo­ve Dan­s­køya in the north, the gla­cier rising to the south. Now we are curious if we get a nor­t­hern light tonight.

Pho­to Schei­buk­ta – 17th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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Kongsfjord – 16th Sep­tem­ber 2015

The day beg­ins as beau­tiful­ly as the last one ends. Kongsfjord in mor­ning light, belts of drif­ting gla­cier ice in the sun, you have to have seen that. Kings Bay has got its name for good reason.
We are wel­co­med by a big reinde­er on the shore. Tun­dra and big erra­tic bould­ers, gla­cier-polished marb­le, views over wide gla­ciers and ice caps, crow­ned by the Tre Kro­ner. A roy­al sce­n­ery.

Pho­to Kongsfjord – 16th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/2

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A short walk through Ny Åle­sund, sto­ries from mining, sci­ence and expe­di­ti­ons, Amund­sen in the sun, the air­ship mast is coming out of the shadow exact­ly in the right moment.

Pho­to Ny Åle­sund – 16th Sep­tem­ber 2015

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We lea­ve the pier under sail, hear the com­ple­te ver­si­on of the histo­ry of arc­tic explo­ra­ti­on from Rolf out­side on deck, in the sun, under sails, nice and quiet. Once we have left the fjord, the sea is picking up a bit, and the demand for din­ner is redu­ced, while we are making 6-7 knots under sail nor­thwards.

Pho­to Kongsfjord – 16th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/2

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Unter Segeln ver­ließ die Anti­gua die Pier, noch im Fjord gab es von Rolf die aus­führ­li­che Fas­sung der Nord­po­lent­de­cker­ge­schich­ten, in der Son­ne an Deck, still unter Segeln. Vor der Küs­te mehr Dünung, die Nach­fra­ge beim Abend­essen ist redu­ziert, wäh­rend es mit 6-7 Kno­ten es nach Nor­den geht.

Lon­gye­ar­by­en – 15th Sep­tem­ber 2015

Reykja­vik, Oslo, Lon­gye­ar­by­en, some warm days in civi­li­sa­ti­on bet­ween Green­land and Spits­ber­gen. Swim­ming pools with natu­ral hot water. Muse­ums with relics from famous polar expe­di­ti­ons. Back to the arc­tic com­fort zone. Back home. Impres­si­ve amounts of equip­ment need to be sor­ted (too much, as always). Mean­while, SV Anti­gua is alre­a­dy in port.

Pho­to Isfjord – 15th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 1/3

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A trip into the unknown beg­ins with well-known rou­ti­nes. (Well, not real­ly into the unknown, of cour­se. But we don’t exact­ly know what the next days will bring, that is the natu­re of this way of tra­ve­ling).

Pho­to Isfjord – 15th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 2/3

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Peo­p­le have to get used to each other and to the ship, and then we are off. Cour­se west and then north. Mean­while, arc­tic autumn is show­ing off. A beau­tiful sun­set behind the west coast.

Pho­to Isfjord – 15th Sep­tem­ber 2015 – 3/3

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Hau­de­gen sta­ti­on under repair

The famous Hau­de­gen-sta­ti­on in the remo­te Rijpfjord on the north coast of Nord­aus­t­land was a Ger­man mili­ta­ry wea­ther sta­ti­on from the Second World War. The sol­diers who man­ned the Hau­de­gen sta­ti­on were not picked up befo­re Sep­tem­ber 1945 and they were the last unit of the Wehr­macht (Ger­man mili­ta­ry during the war) which sur­ren­de­red offi­ci­al­ly (and very hap­pi­ly) on this occa­si­on. Rumors that they had sim­ply been for­got­ten are wrong: they had con­stant­ly been in touch with Nor­way after the end of the war, both about their pick­up and for sen­ding wea­ther data to the meteo­ro­lo­gi­cal net­work.

Sin­ce then, the buil­ding of the Hau­de­gen-sta­ti­on has been decaying. It is the only war wea­ther sta­ti­on in the arc­tic that still has a stan­ding buil­ding, but the so-cal­led “hard paper hut” has suf­fe­r­ed stron­gly from 70 years of arc­tic wea­ther. Melt­wa­ter see­ping through the roof was a men­ace alre­a­dy in spring 1945, and the mois­tu­re has not done the buil­ding any good sin­ce. As a reac­tion, access to the hut and its nea­rest sur­roun­dings was clo­sed in 2010. Per Kyr­re Rei­mert, then archeo­lo­gist at the Sys­sel­man­nen, said that due to a lack of resour­ces to repair the house, clo­sing it was the only alter­na­ti­ve.

In August 2015, major repair work was done on Hau­de­gen sta­ti­on for the first time sin­ce 1945. A team of craft­smen from the Sys­sel­man­nen was the­re to start the pro­ject. A small tem­po­ra­ry hut was estab­lished for accom­mo­da­ti­on. The Hau­de­gen sta­ti­on has got a new roof which is sup­po­sed to pro­tect the buil­ding from mois­tu­re. Fur­ther work remains to be done, but no more details are known at the time of wri­ting.

The Hau­de­gen-sta­ti­on in August 2015 with a new roof.

Haudegen-station 2015

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