For well-digestable further information, see my book Rocks and Ice
A) Rocks – a short introduction
A few words about rocks will make understanding everything else a bit easier. There are three different, basic groups of rocks (click to see the various sections)
Grundvigskirken – a needle-like mountain peak of hard, Caledonian cristalline rocks (granite, gneiss) in the Øfjord, shaped by ice-age glaciers
B) The Scoresbysund-area in East Greenland
The Scoresbysund area has a long and varied Earth history, which spans almost 3 billion years. Simplified, the geological framework can be subdivided into six parts, on top of which then comes the ice age. This corresponds to the units in the geological scetch map above (click on the links to get to the various sections).
The Precambrian shield (innermost Scoresbysund: innermost Vestfjord and innermost Nordvestfjord).
The Caledonian fold belt (inner Scoresbysund: Gåsefjord, Fønfjord, Rødefjord, Vestfjord, Øfjord, Nordvestfjord).
Huts are places of longing, dreams and adventure in Spitsbergen’s beautiful landscape. Even if the modern visitor’s eye may mostly be directed towards nature, most will have an open ear every now and then for exciting survival stories about explorers and expeditions, adventurers and trappers.
These huts are silent witnesses and and every one of them tells a little part of the whole story. The little book “Svalbardhytter” and the poster that is part of the same project make these fascinating places accessible for everyone.
From remote ruins, just traces in a few cases, to “famous” trapper huts such as Fredheim in Tempelfjord and Bjørneborg on Halvmåneøya, the war weather station Haudegen, the former scientific base Würzburger Hütte on Barentsøya and Hammerfesthuset, Svalbard’s oldest building.