Spitsbergen News & Polar Travelblog by Rolf Stange
On these pages, you will find a blog with news and stories that are usually updated at least once per month, focussing on general news of interest, the environment, science and tourism, new legislation and more. Please click the month that you wish to read in the navigation bar on the left side.
The polar travel blog – emphasizing on the northern spring and summer – is now also included here.
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.