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Isfjord: Tun­draod­den & Bohe­man­nes­et. Lon­gye­ar­by­en.

And the sun went up ☀️😃 wun­derful! A blue sky, bright suns­hi­ne. We cer­tain­ly enjoy­ed that, we had not had so much of that the last cou­ple of days.

We enjoy­ed this final full day accor­din­gly, with a litt­le hike on Erd­mann­flya in Bore­buk­ta. And final­ly on beau­tiful Bohe­man­nes­et.

Pho­to gal­lery Isfjord: Tun­draod­den & Bohe­man­nes­et. 07th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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And not much later we were back in Lon­gye­ar­by­en. Back in civi­li­sa­ti­on. Pack­ing, say­ing good­bye and fare­well … but first, time to cele­bra­te!

Pho­to­gal­lery Lon­gye­ar­by­en, 07th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Trygg­ham­na, Alk­hor­net

Belie­ve it or not but the Arc­tic can actual­ly be pret­ty unp­lea­sant. Then it’s bet­ter to stay insi­de the cosy ship and talk about rocks. Mean­while out­side – let it rain, rain, rain.

But the sun does shi­ne after every rain­fall. The after­noon at Alk­hor­net tur­ned out to be won­derful. A tun­dra para­di­se with reinde­er and polar foxes. Stun­ning.

Pho­to gal­lery Trygg­ham­na, Alk­hor­net. 06th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Bell­sund

Bell­sund was today a bit grey, but we could spend a dry and beau­tiful mor­ning in Recher­chefjord, from the green tun­dra at Asbes­tod­den (the mine­ral asbes­tos occurs the­re natu­ral­ly and an attempt was even made to mine it the­re a cen­tu­ry ago, hence the name) to Recher­che­breen.

The after­noon was real­ly wet and our visit at Kapp Tos­ca­na thus tur­ned out to be a short one. Later it cle­ared up again at Fri­dt­jov­breen.

Pho­to gal­lery Bell­sund: Recher­chefjord, Kapp Tos­ca­na, Fri­dt­jov­breen. 05th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Sør­kapp, Horn­sund

The drea­ded south cape: plea­sant­ly uneventful. Fog­gy and calm.

Horn­sund: also fog­gy. But once again we mana­ged to be at the right place in the right time, at Gnå­lod­den in the evening.

Pho­to gal­lery: Sør­kapp – Horn­sund. 04th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Rain war­ning issued for Lon­gye­ar­by­en

Rain? We have had our share of rain in Spits­ber­gen this sum­mer, that’s for sure. And that is exact­ly the pro­blem with tho­se 25 mm of rain that the Nor­we­gi­an meteo­ro­lo­gi­cal ser­vice pre­dicts for Fri­day (06 Sep­tem­ber): the soil is alre­a­dy pret­ty much water satu­ra­ted and any addi­tio­nal rain will this run off quick­ly at the sur­face, which may lead to floo­ding and thus to dama­ge. Ear­lier this year the pede­stri­an bridge Per­le­por­ten was dama­ged by floo­ding in Lon­gye­ar­by­en.

Addi­tio­nal­ly, rain pene­t­ra­ting into the ground may cau­se soil lay­ers to thaw that have been fro­zen for hundreds or even thou­sands of years. This may affect slo­pe sta­bi­li­ty around Lon­gye­ar­by­en and other are­as.

landslide Longyearbyen

Older lands­li­de in Lon­gye­ar­by­en, near the ceme­ta­ry (left side in the pic­tu­re): simi­lar events may hap­pen after the strong rain­fall expec­ted on Fri­day.

Edgeøya: Ston­ebreen, Halv­må­neøya

It was a bit of a bum­py start into the day, with a pret­ty strong bree­ze blo­wing through Free­man­sund. We deci­ded to stay on the east side of Edgeøya today. Good thing.

The­re, we had the migh­ty Ston­ebreen – a uni­que spe­ci­men of a gla­cier! Edgeøy­jø­ku­len is an ice cap of a good 1300 squa­re kilo­me­t­res, and on its eas­tern side it just flows out into the sea, on a coas­tal stretch as long as 25 kilo­me­t­res. The actu­al gla­cier front is much lon­ger. We were lucky enough to get clo­se to that impres­si­ve bit of land­scape in suns­hi­ne ❄️☀️😎

This was fol­lo­wed by a scenic pas­sa­ge of the east coast of Edgeøya and final­ly a litt­le evening landing on Halv­må­neøya, at the famous trap­per hut of Bjør­ne­borg – very atmo­sphe­ric, not the least due to some fog banks and the sad call of seve­ral red throa­ted divers on some ponds in the vici­ni­ty.

Pho­to gal­lery – Edgeøya: Ston­ebreen, Halv­må­neøya. 03rd Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Hin­lo­pen Strait: Pal­an­der­buk­ta, Van Otterøya

What’s bet­ter than a gol­den day in Hin­lo­pen Strait? I can’t think of much. We ven­tu­red deep into Nordaustland’s fjords, into Pal­an­der­buk­ta, whe­re we were kind­ly gree­ted by some hump­back wha­les 🐳😀 and of cour­se the bar­ren polar desert land­scape and the huge ice caps that are so cha­rac­te­ristic for Nord­aus­t­land.

The evening brought a sun­ri­se that we enjoy­ed from a low hill on Von Otterøya.

Pho­to gal­lery – Hin­lo­pen Strait: Pal­an­der­buk­ta, Van Otterøya. 02nd Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Andøya­ne & Gråhu­ken

We visi­ted Andøya­ne during the mor­ning, a litt­le para­di­se of arc­tic natu­re in Lief­defjord. Red rocks, green tun­dra, blue sky, screa­ming arc­tic terns and the sad call of the red-throa­ted diver.

In Wood­fjord, we saw seve­ral polar bears. A mother and her cub had obvious­ly found some­thing to feed on – we couldn’t quite make out what it was – and a loner wat­ched from a save distance.

The famous “Rit­ter hut” at Gråhu­ken was the cul­tu­ral high­light of ano­ther love­ly day.

Pho­to gal­lery – Lief­defjord & Wood­fjord: Andøya­ne, Gråhu­ken, 01st sep­tem­ber 2024

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In Raud­fjord

The calm night ancho­red in Raud­fjord and some sun­rays last night and in the ear­ly mor­ning were a good thing. We spent the mor­ning in the beau­tiful bay of Hamil­ton­buk­ta.

In the after­noon it was time to stretch legs a lit­te bit, and so we did during a hike across Buchan­an­hal­vøya in inner Raud­fjord. Just in time befo­re it star­ted rai­ning again.

Pho­to gal­lery – Raud­fjord: Hamil­ton­buk­ta, Buchan­an­hal­vøya, 31st August 2024

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