North Spitsbergen under sail with SV Antigua

Sai­ling in Spits­ber­gen with the three-mast bar­ken­ti­ne Anti­gua in late Sep­tem­ber – that should be a voya­ge into the light of the Arc­tic, and that’s what it tur­ned out to be! The low sun bathed all the­se fjords and islands in beau­tiful, warm light. The light was, howe­ver, pret­ty much the only thing out the­re that was warm; other than that, the land­scape had most­ly alre­a­dy put a win­ter coat on. The wea­ther was pret­ty unsta­ble, so the wea­ther fore­cast was an important tool for plan­ning the voya­ge from day to day – and that work­ed out very well, we had pret­ty much always a favoura­ble com­bi­na­ti­on of right place, right time, so we could make a lot of landings and walks in the arc­tic win­ter land­scape. Good stuff! Even though our luck with polar bear sightin­gs was pret­ty limi­t­ed and we did not get to see any nor­t­hern lights – almost a bit stran­ge con­side­ring how much time we spent in good places. But in the end, it is also a mat­ter of luck, and you always have to lea­ve some­thing for next time. And other than that? Spits­ber­gen was fri­end­ly with us!

The pho­to gal­le­ries on the pages lin­ked up below will give some good impres­si­ons. Enjoy!

Das zei­gen die unten ver­link­ten Sei­ten mit vie­len Bil­dern von den jewei­li­gen Abschnit­ten unse­rer Rei­se. Viel Freu­de beim Durch­kli­cken und Lesen!

Click here to down­load the tri­plog (pdf, Ger­man text).

The links in the text will open pages within this web­site that have more back­ground infor­ma­ti­on and 360-degree-pan­ora­mas of many of the various places that we visi­ted.

The fol­lo­wing pan­ora­mas were shot during our voya­ge (the­se are the ones that I have pro­ces­sed so far, that takes some time):

• Blom­strand­hal­vøya: Irgens­fjel­let
• Blom­strand­hal­vøya: Brat­lie­kol­len
• Kongsfjord: Sig­rid­hol­men

Pho­to gal­lery – North Spits­ber­gen with SV Anti­gua, 19-29 sep­tem­ber 2019

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Click on thumb­nail to get the cor­re­spon­ding gal­lery.

Gal­lery 1:
Kross­fjord and Kongsfjord

37 Pho­tos

Gal­lery 2:
Nor­thwards, into Wood­fjord

47 Pho­tos

Gal­lery 3:
Back to Isfjord

34 Pho­tos

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