The trip from Norway up to Spitsbergen is always a great start of the arctic summer season. Starting with its great variety of landscape and climate, from the fishing villages of Lofoten up to the glaciers of Spitsbergen. The pages linked up below have photo galleries with many impressions of this remarkable voyage. Have a look at my arctic blog for some more stories to follow this trip and those which will follow soon.
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.