Gallery - The far northeast

Being faced with good ice- and wea­ther con­di­ti­ons, we took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to sail around not just the main island of Spits­ber­gen, but also Nord­aus­t­land, visi­ting some of Svalbard’s remo­test islands. Among­st them Sjuøya­ne, from whe­re you can almost see the north pole, Storøya, whe­re we spent an unfor­gettable mor­ning with a good dozen of polar bears and Kvi­tøya, whe­re we got as clo­se to the Andrée-expedition’s final camp, next to the impres­si­ve ice cap, as that polar bear allo­wed that was wal­king around not far from it.

The end­less ice cliff of sou­the­as­tern Nord­aus­t­land is as impres­si­ve as it is long, and the polar desert in its neigh­bour­hood tur­ned out to be a palaeo­zoic para­di­se.

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

To the gal­lery:  → to the album page  → The nor­t­hern west coast  → From the north coast into Hin­lo­pen Strait  → The far nor­the­ast  → The sou­the­ast  → The sou­thern west coast