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Calen­dar “Spits­ber­gen & Green­land 2025”: the sto­ries behind the pho­tos

A while ago, I star­ted tel­ling the sto­ries of the pic­tures in the new pho­to book ‘Spits­ber­gen – Cold Beau­ty’, and I wan­ted to con­ti­nue that. Now it is about the new calen­dar, but the idea is the same: the sto­ries behind the pho­tos, as I’m final­ly get­ting round to picking it up again.

The 2025 calen­dar is a dou­ble calen­dar, Spits­ber­gen and Green­land are pre­sen­ted with 12 pic­tures each. Here we have Novem­ber and Decem­ber, so four pic­tures and four sto­ries in total.

Calen­der “Spits­ber­gen & Green­land 2025”: Novem­ber

Autumn in the Arc­tic – during this time of year, we are hoping for beau­tiful light. Low sun during day­ti­me and end­less sun­sets. Of cour­se, the sun doesn’t shi­ne at all in Sval­bard in Novem­ber, as the polar night beg­ins at the end of Octo­ber. The Spits­ber­gen pic­tu­re for the Novem­ber page was taken on a beau­tiful day at the end of August 2022, on the first ever cir­cum­na­vi­ga­ti­on of Spits­ber­gen with sai­ling ship Mean­der. The wea­ther was real­ly on our side, and then you can go to cra­zy places whe­re you wouldn’t nor­mal­ly go. Becau­se they are very expo­sed, becau­se the waters clo­se to the shore are unchar­ted and shal­low.

This is exact­ly the case in the exten­si­ve Dis­ko­bukt on Edgeøya. Here, every wave quick­ly turns into a brea­k­er even befo­re it rea­ches the shore, and at low tide the pro­pel­ler whirls in the mud well befo­re you get any­whe­re near the coast. It is sen­si­ble to stay away from such places in ever­y­day life. But not every day is ever­y­day life, and we are not always sen­si­ble, are we 😄 other­wi­se whe­re would we end up … cer­tain­ly not in this part of Dis­ko­buk­ta! (This is not about the rela­tively well known kit­ti­wa­ke colo­ny in the nor­t­hern part of Dis­ko­buk­ta.) Whe­re we were ashore in the evening of this unfor­gettable day and went for a litt­le hike to and up a low hill. I had seen this hill so many times from a distance as we sai­led past and always thought that one day I would have to go the­re … and this was just the right oppor­tu­ni­ty! It just has to hap­pen, you can’t force things like that.

Dis­ko­buk­ta on Edgeøya (not the one in west Green­land) is aptly descri­bed as ‘vast’ or ‘wide open’. Bar­ren, high arc­tic, a vast, dark­ly colou­red allu­vi­al plain. Num­e­rous wha­le bones add varie­ty to the other­wi­se mono­to­no­us land­scape impres­si­on, and the gre­at light of a beau­tiful evening at the end of August at around 78 degrees north did its part.

Calendar Spitsbergen, Greenland 2025: Diskobukta, Edgeøya

The Novem­ber-Spits­ber­gen-image shows Dis­ko­buk­ta on Edgeøya.

I had been the­re years befo­re. On that occa­si­on: hori­zon­tal snow – and a polar bear on the shore. That was gre­at too. But that evening at the end of August, when we were able to go ashore … unfor­gettable! That’s the stuff my Spits­ber­gen dreams are made of. It was so beau­tiful that I rea­li­sed on the spot that one of the pic­tures would be in the calen­dar as soon as pos­si­ble. ‘Calen­dar poten­ti­al’ is the hig­hest pho­to­gra­phic stan­dard here 🙂

The other sto­ries are told rela­tively quick­ly. In Score­s­by­sund in East Green­land, the musk ox is rough­ly what the polar bear is to Spits­ber­gen: tou­rists usual­ly want to see them.

Now they usual­ly stand some­whe­re far away on a moun­tain slo­pe. It takes a bit of luck to see them up clo­se. And too clo­se is also poten­ti­al­ly unhe­alt­hy, of cour­se, espe­ci­al­ly when you are hiking.

One fine day with ear­ly win­ter mood in Sep­tem­ber in Rypefjord, deep in Score­s­by­sund, ever­y­thing was just right: the musk oxen were quite clo­se to the shore and we could see them per­fect­ly well from the boat – the love­ly Ópal from Ice­land. And very hel­pful to secu­re not only some nice views, but actual­ly good pho­tos: I had my 600 mil­li­met­re lens with me, the real­ly big one that usual­ly stays in Spits­ber­gen and lives on the ship rather than being drag­ged around on land. Just for the polar bears. Or in Green­land for the musk oxen. The effort was worth it here.

Calender Spitsbergen, Greenland 2025: Musk oxen

The Novem­ber-pic­tu­re for Green­land: Musk oxen in Rypefjord.

Calen­der “Spits­ber­gen & Green­land 2025”: Decem­ber

Of cour­se, I wouldn’t miss the nor­t­hern lights at the end of the year. Decem­ber is the deepest polar night, and of cour­se, you just can’t get to the most remo­te cor­ners of Spits­ber­gen at this time of year. But why should you, you can see the nor­t­hern lights won­derful­ly in Advent­da­len, not far from Lon­gye­ar­by­en.

Calender Spitsbergen, Greenland 2025: northern light

The Decem­ber-image, Spits­ber­gen: Nor­t­hern light abo­ve Advent­da­len.

Lar­ge parts of Green­land, inclu­ding Score­s­by­sund, are actual­ly even bet­ter for obser­ving the nor­t­hern lights than Sval­bard, whe­re you are alre­a­dy north of the hot auro­ra zone, the Auro­ra Oval. Score­s­by­sund is the right place to be, as the­re is a lot of action when it only gets dark at night. And due to the more sou­t­her­ly loca­ti­on, this is the case ear­lier in the year than in Sval­bard, Sep­tem­ber is a pret­ty relia­ble month. In this pic­tu­re we see the nor­t­hern lights over Bjør­neøer­ne, with the magni­fi­cent Øfjord and the striking Grundt­vigs­kir­ke moun­tain in the back­ground.

Calendar Spitsbergen, Greenland 2025: northern light

The Decem­ber-pic­tu­re, Green­land: nor­t­hern light over Bjør­neøer­ne.

The dou­ble calen­dar ‘Spits­ber­gen & Green­land 2025’ is available in the Spitzbergen.de web­shop in two sizes (A3 and A5), as well as many other gre­at things – not just books – of cour­se.

Advent sea­son in Lon­gye­ar­by­en

Now, Lon­gye­ar­by­en is loca­ted in Advent­fjord, isn’t it 🤪😵‍💫 this is actual­ly not only one of my infa­mous puns, but actual­ly a not so rare misun­derstan­ding. The name Advent­fjord has not­hing to do with the Advent sea­son, but with an Eng­lish wha­ling ship, the Adven­ture, which was the­re in the 17th cen­tu­ry.

But that’s not what this is all about, it’s about the start of the Advent sea­son in Lon­gye­ar­by­en. The­re is also a Christ­mas mar­ket here, or rather two, even. Howe­ver, they are a litt­le dif­fe­rent to what most of us may be used to. On two weekends, in mid-Novem­ber and last weekend, the hard-working and crea­ti­ve artists, craft­speo­p­le and ever­yo­ne in bet­ween set up their stalls, first in the cul­tu­ral cent­re (Kul­tur­hu­set) in the town cent­re and on the first weekend of Advent in the artists’ cent­re (kunst­ner­sen­trum) in Nyby­en hig­her up in the val­ley, whe­re the gal­lery used to be some years ago. Unfort­u­na­te­ly no roas­ted almonds and no mull­ed wine, but lots of gre­at han­di­crafts made in Lon­gye­ar­by­en, inclu­ding Eva Grøn­dal from the local pho­to­grapher dynasty of the same name (first pic­tu­re) and Wolf­gang Hüb­ner-Zach from the car­pen­try work­shop Alt i 3 (that’s whe­re the beau­tiful kit­chen boards and drift­wood pic­tu­re frames come from 😉). And lots of other gre­at things. Lena’s decep­tively real cho­co­la­te fos­sils, awe­so­me! To name just one more exam­p­le.

Christ­mas mar­ket in Nyby­en

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And then, of cour­se, the­re is the tra­di­tio­nal torch­light pro­ces­si­on on the after­noon of the first Sun­day in Advent – it is dark, even the street lights are swit­ched off in the area during the event – from the Huset to Santa’s let­ter­box below the old pit 2b, the ‘jule­n­is­se­gruve’ (Santa’s pit). Father Christ­mas is working hard up the­re now, so this old coal mine, aban­do­ned sin­ce 1964, is now lit up again until Christ­mas. And down by the road is the let­ter­box whe­re the child­ren (inclu­ding the older ones, if they want to) post their let­ters to Father Christ­mas with all their wis­hes.

The rou­te con­ti­nues to the cent­re, whe­re the Christ­mas tree is lit. Of cour­se, the­re are warm words, cheerful sin­ging and good cheer and, last but not least, Father Christ­mas arri­ves with his assistants and dis­tri­bu­tes a small advan­ce to the many child­ren.

The Christ­mas tree is lit

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This marks the start of the Advent sea­son in Lon­gye­ar­by­en, and ever­y­whe­re else too, of cour­se. I wish ever­yo­ne a hap­py and joyful Advent sea­son!

Trom­sø

Trom­sø! The­re is always some­thing to dis­co­ver, some­thing that you haven’t seen befo­re. The most inte­res­t­ing book­shop in town, for exam­p­le, well hid­den in Sjø­ga­ta 20. Recom­men­ded!

Tromsø bookshop

“Trom­sø fri­mer­ke og mynt” in Sjø­ga­ta 20: Tromsø’s most exci­ting book­shop.

So, here we go again! One more time, as far as I am con­cer­ned. One more time “Arc­tic under sail”. With good ol’ Anti­gua, loo­king for nor­t­hern lights and wha­les.

Nor­t­hern lights we found direct­ly on the first evening 🙂 and as for the wha­les, we will have to wait a litt­le bit. The wea­ther is sim­ply incre­di­ble. One storm after the other. Bet­ter to hide some­whe­re in the fjords for a while befo­re we head towards Kvæn­an­gen. But no worries, we will get the­re.

Pho­to gal­lery Trom­sø – 12th Novem­ber 2024

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Ham­nes, Lyn­gengfjord … and back to Trom­sø

As I men­tio­ned befo­re, the last night was long. Or short, depen­ding on how you look at it. Nor­t­hern lights were the thing, the­re had been quite a show on the sky. Ama­zing!

After a litt­le walk in and near Ham­nes with gre­at views of the stun­ning Lyn­gen­alps we set sails in Lyn­gen­fjord. Sai­ling the­re – and I mean real sai­ling – was a fan­ta­stic was to round this voya­ge off!

Pho­to gal­lery Ham­nes & Lyn­gen­fjord – 10th Novem­ber 2024

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Then we went back to Trom­sø, and this is the last blog ent­ry of this voya­ge. It was inde­ed a spe­cial one, with a lot of wea­ther that can aptly be descri­bed as awful. Yet, it was a gre­at trip, we saw a lot and the spi­rits were good. Thanks to all of you who were part of it!

From Skjer­vøy to Ham­nes

During the mor­ning we were still in Skjer­vøy and went on a litt­le tour up to one of the moun­ta­ins near the town. The­re we had a nice view over the bay and sur­roun­dings.

Pho­to gal­lery Skjer­vøy – 09th Novem­ber 2024

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In the ear­ly after­noon the wind wea­k­en­ed and we set off towards Ham­nes, a litt­le fishing vil­la­ge on the island Uløy. Ano­ther kind of wind picked up but this time it was the solar wind and soon we could enjoy the nor­t­hern lights. Awe­so­me after days only with clouds, storm and rain. The sky was not real­ly clear and clouds came and went but this made the sce­n­ery even more magi­cal.

If you want to read more about nor­t­hern lights, the­re is a lot of infor­ma­ti­on on my web­site here.

It tur­ned out to be a long evening … 😀

Pho­to gal­lery Ham­nes – 09th Novem­ber 2024

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Tem­pe­ra­tu­re records and storm in north Nor­way

Never befo­re have tem­pe­ra­tures as high as today’s been mea­su­red in north Nor­way: sta­ti­ons of the Nor­we­gi­an meteo­ro­lo­gi­cal ser­vice bet­ween Ves­terå­len and Finn­mark recor­ded up to 16 degrees today (8 Novem­ber), as NRK reports.

A hea­vy storm is raging over the who­le area with winds up to force 11, and the­re are reports about dama­ge.

Yes­ter­day it had not yet been so cra­zy, so we sai­led out into Kvæn­an­gen, in beau­tiful style under sails, and saw some wha­les here and some more the­re. But the wind just kept incre­asing and I guess the­re might well have been more than just a few on board who were quite hap­py when the ship was along­side in Skjer­vøy again in the later after­noon.

Today we stay­ed in port. Good thing, con­side­ring the con­di­ti­ons with how­ling gusts which can lite­ral­ly blow one’s socks off. Wal­king out­side is very unp­lea­sant, with sand and small stones being blown into your face. The­re is the occa­sio­nal hole in the clouds, but no nor­t­hern lights so far and now it is rai­ning again.

But we are having a good time. Now I under­stand why I put quite a lot of time into pre­pa­ring some new pre­sen­ta­ti­ons 🙂 and this mor­ning, when it was just a litt­le bit less cra­zy, we went to one of the hills of Skjer­vøy.

Pho­to gal­lery Kvæn­an­gen & Skjer­vøy – 06th/07th Novem­ber 2024

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Skjer­vøy, Kvæn­an­gen: Orcas, orcas …

We had spent the night in Skjer­vøy, the litt­le metro­po­lis (well, almost 2000 inha­bi­tants) of Kvæn­an­gen. The port whe­re the famous Fram rea­ched civi­li­sa­ti­on again after the legen­da­ry ice drift across the Arc­tic Oce­an in 1893-96.

We don’t tra­vel on that level 🙂 but nevert­hel­ess it was adven­tur­ous here and today, with wind and wea­ther and ple­nty of orcas and other wha­les!

Pho­toa gal­lery Skjer­vøy & Kvæn­an­gen – 05th/06th Novem­ber 2024

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From Trom­sø to Len­an­gen and Kvæn­an­gen

And off we went. On the first evening we went to Len­an­gen, a very small port (“port” is a big word …) on the west side of the Lyn­gen Alps. We didn’t spend too much time the­re, though; we were on the move again alre­a­dy during break­fast time – and found our first Orcas soon after depar­tu­re. Ama­zing!

Luck remain­ed on our side with a love­ly sight­ing of Fin wha­les as soon as we had rea­ched the Kvæn­an­gen area.

Pho­to gal­lery Trom­sø, Len­gan­gen & Kvæn­an­gen – 04th/05th Novem­ber 2024

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Nor­way with SV Anti­gua: Trom­sø

North Nor­way under sail! We have got a full week ahead of us on good ol’ Anti­gua, focus­sing on the Kvæn­an­gen area around Skjer­vøy, hoping for wha­les and nor­t­hern lights.

Pho­to gal­lery Trom­sø – 04th Novem­ber 2024

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Trom­sø is always worth a visit, with its inte­res­t­ing muse­ums and this – for north Nor­we­gi­an stan­dards – big city is gene­ral­ly char­ming. As long as you don’t mind a piz­za to be more expen­si­ve than 20 Euro, that is.

And may­be we should have spent some more money on wea­ther. The fore­cast is mixed, to put it mild­ly. North Nor­way in Novem­ber …

Good­by, Mean­der! Fare­well, sum­mer!

Yes, it is mid Octo­ber and the sum­mer has left Spits­ber­gen weeks ago alre­a­dy. Most migra­ting birds have gone their way, and so did SV Mean­der on Mon­day. Safe sai­ling! See you again, up here next year at the latest, pos­si­ble alre­a­dy in Novem­ber in Nor­way.

Meander

SV Mean­der lea­ving Lon­gye­ar­by­en on Mon­day.

At the time of wri­ting (Wed­ne­say), it was 3 degrees abo­ve free­zing, far war­mer than it usual­ly is in Octo­ber. Nevert­hel­ess: the arc­tic win­ter is just around the cor­ner. The polar night will start in just 11 days (last sun­ri­se in Lon­gye­ar­by­en: 25 Octo­ber). The­re is no water run­ning in the rivers any­mo­re. Cold and snow will come soon.

River, Longyearbyen

The river in Lon­gye­ar­by­en, 15 Okto­ber.

For many in Lon­gye­ar­by­en (inclu­ding this aut­hor), the­re is a calm time coming up right now. The Dark Sea­son Blues­fes­ti­val will hap­pen in late Octo­ber as usu­al, and the­re are always some smal­ler events like public pre­sen­ta­ti­ons and others. For me, the­re is a lot of office work after a long sum­mer of sai­ling the coasts of Sval­bard. Bes­i­des the rather bor­ing stuff inclu­ding book­kee­ping and so on, the­re are a lot of pho­tos to be sor­ted – and used, for editing tri­plogs which are in the making tog­e­ther with their asso­cia­ted pages on this web­site with ple­nty of pho­to gal­le­ries. They are well worth having a look (start here for the over­view), it was a gre­at sea­son. Recent­ly I finis­hed and published the tri­plogs of the trips with Arc­ti­ca II in August and Mean­der in late August/early Sep­tem­ber. Anti­gua in Sep­tem­ber will be coming up soon.

This year’s final Spits­ber­gen sai­ling blog

The last day of the voya­ge, the last day “Spits­ber­gen under sail” in 2024. In Ekm­anfjord and Dick­son­fjord. We star­ted at Flin­thol­men, a perl of arc­tic natu­re and sce­n­ery.

Then we crui­sed Dick­son­fjord. The­re was this gut fee­ling … and yes, we did see polar bears, during the very last miles of the trip! What a luck, ever­y­bo­dy was so hap­py. They were pret­ty far away, no frame-fil­ling pho­tos, but that didn’t mat­ter, it was real­ly about the expe­ri­ence of having seen them in the wild. The real thing. The distance was a good 500 m, and this is, by the way, the distance requi­red by law from 2025 during spring (until end of June; from July it’s 300 m and all this is valid within Svalbard’s 12 mile zone).

A few hours later we were back in Lon­gye­ar­by­en, and thus this beau­tiful trip came to an end. It was fare­well and good­bye, on various levels. This was my very last trip with good old Anti­gua in Spits­ber­gen, after more than 30 sin­ce 2010. We went many miles tog­e­ther and the part of this voya­ge that hap­pens in Spits­ber­gen waters is over now. But we’ll meet again, quite soon actual­ly, in a few weeks in north Nor­way 🙂

And it was my very last Spits­ber­gen voya­ge under the cur­rent legal regime. A lot will chan­ge next year (more infor­ma­ti­on here). Bey­ond the requi­red distances from polar bears (see abo­ve), we won’t be able to go ashore any­mo­re as free­ly as we can so far. We will still be able to do good and inte­res­t­ing voy­a­ges from 2025, but they will be dif­fe­rent. May­be even bet­ter in cer­tain ways. Less pres­su­re to sail to remo­te are­as, less miles, more time to go hiking etc. Not a bad thing in its­elf. I would very much pre­fer it to be a mat­ter of my own choice, though (and not – sor­ry – the choice of some idi­ots far away, the­re is sim­ply no exper­ti­se in the­se new laws, just office table bull­shit. Sor­ry, I get car­ri­ed away, but it is tuff stuff).

So Sval­bard life will con­ti­nue also next year and bey­ond as far as we can tell now, but it will be dif­fe­rent. A lot will be lost espe­ci­al­ly for tho­se who have been around for a while, tho­se who know the place. We have done well on this trip, visi­ting places like Fjer­de­breen on the west coast, Idun­nes­et in Wahl­enberg­fjord, Zei­pe­lod­den in Pal­an­der­buk­ta and Mof­fen. All of them will not be acces­si­ble any­mo­re from 2025 – unless you come on a pri­va­te trip. Which is ridi­cu­lous, of cour­se; who comes to such remo­te places on a pri­va­te trip?

I am pri­vi­le­ged to have been around here, and I am gra­teful for that.

Thank you, Anti­gua! Thank you for being such a gre­at, such an enjoya­ble part of this jour­ney! The ship, the crew that made it all pos­si­ble, ever­y­bo­dy who was part of it and made it so enjoya­ble. Thank you for now, all the best and see you again, any­whe­re bet­ween the poles!

Pho­to gal­lery Isfjord: Ekm­anfjord & Dick­son­fjord – 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Isfjord: Alk­hor­net & Bore­breen

Back in Isfjord! Good thing, we still had plans here. Start­ing with the tun­dra para­di­se at Alk­hor­net with ple­nty of good loo­king reinde­er, an arc­tic fox, two ptar­mi­gans and a curious­ly park­ed Sys­sel­mes­ter boat.

We spent the after­noon at Bore­breen, a might­i­ly impres­si­ve gla­cier due to its cur­rent advan­ce. The tur­ning ice­berg was just as impres­si­ve.

You are curr­ent­ly vie­w­ing a pla­ce­hol­der con­tent from You­Tube. To access the actu­al con­tent, click the but­ton below. Plea­se note that doing so will share data with third-par­ty pro­vi­ders.

More Infor­ma­ti­on

Tur­ning ice­berg at Bore­breen. Video by Burk­hard Hel­ler – thank you! 🙂

And Piet and the ser­vice crew show­ed what they are real­ly capa­ble of in the evening. Yet ano­ther high­light on this day which was not poor in high­lights at all. Now we were just curious if we would mana­ge to see a polar bear tomor­row, on the very last full day of this trip …

Pho­to gal­lery Isfjord: Alk­hor­net & Bore­breen – 21st Sep­tem­ber 2024

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St. Jons­fjord

After a long pas­sa­ge during the night we rea­ched St. Jons­fjord exact­ly in time after break­fast to enjoy a love­ly mor­ning moun­tain hike with stun­ning gla­cier views.

In the after­noon we made a tun­dra walk at Gjert­se­nod­den, enjoy­ing the sun.

Pho­to gal­lery St. Jons­fjord: Valen­tins­ryg­gen, Gjert­se­nod­den – 20th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Mof­fen, Sal­ly­ham­na, Smee­ren­burg­breen

Wed­nes­day ended with landing on Mof­fen (for any­thing befo­re that, see pre­vious blog). Cool! Mof­fen is a very spe­cial place and cer­tain­ly one that you don’t get to too often.

It tur­ned out to be good to con­ti­nue to Hol­miabuk­ta in nor­thwest Spits­ber­gen for ancho­ring. The wind picked up quite con­sider­a­b­ly at the north coast. Time to move on. But we were in the right place and we got a love­ly mor­ning at Sal­ly­ham­na and Sabi­neodden.

The after­noon was quite win­dy, but we finis­hed it in a rather spon­ta­neous and very cool way at Smee­ren­burg­breen.

Pho­to gal­lery – Mof­fen, Sal­ly­ham­na, Smee­ren­burg­breen – 18th/19th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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Hin­lo­pen Strait: Wahl­ber­gøya, Murch­ison­fjord

Again, it is fog­gy in Hin­lo­pen Strait. It was just enough to visit the wal­ru­ses on Wahl­ber­gøya. And they were in pret­ty good mood 🙂

Then – fog, fog. We didn’t see the sky again until we rea­ched Murch­ison­fjord in the evening. Full moon abo­ve the moun­ta­ins. The nights are get­ting dar­ker and dar­ker now.

A night at anchor in Wea­sel­buk­ta is some­thing quite spe­cial in its­elf. And so is a hike on Nord­aus­t­land, name­ly Roald­top­pen in this case.

Now we have set cour­se for mof­fen. In thick fog …

Gal­lery – Hin­lo­pen Strait: Wahl­ber­gøya, Murch­ison­fjord – 17th/18th Sep­tem­ber 2024

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

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