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Home* Tri­plogs with pho­to gal­le­riesArc­tic sea­son 2024 → Spits­ber­gen with SV Anti­gua, 10.-23.9.

Spitsbergen with SV Antigua, 10-23 September 2024

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SV Antigua, Spitsbergen 2024

SV Anti­gua in Sep­tem­ber light in For­lands­und.

Spits­ber­gen with SV Anti­gua, 10-23 Sep­tem­ber 2024

Late sum­mer and autum in the Arc­tic, that is a pret­ty short tran­si­ti­on from sum­mer to win­ter. It’s just two month from the end of the mid­night sun peri­od in late August until the begin­ning of the polar night in late Octo­ber.

This voya­ge to Svalbard’s nor­t­hern parts hap­pen­ed in the midd­le of that beau­tiful peri­od, with stun­ning light con­di­ti­ons and ama­zing sun­sets. That and much more was what we were hoping for during this trip, and that’s what we got – and more. Also inclu­ding some real autumn wea­ther inclu­ding some pret­ty fog­gy days. We could stay away from the wind, but fog … dif­fi­cult.

SV Antigua, Spitsbergen 2024

Evening light in Kross­fjord.

The­re were beau­tiful impres­si­ons of all sorts. They are docu­men­ted in the tri­plog and in pho­to gal­le­ries on seve­ral pages that you can access through the links below.

Tri­plog: Spits­ber­gen with SV Anti­gua, 10-23 Sep­tem­ber 2024

The­re are two ver­si­ons. The con­tent is iden­ti­cal, the dif­fe­rence is just the file size and thus the gra­phic qua­li­ty. The text is Ger­man, any­way.

Pho­to gal­le­ries: Spits­ber­gen with SV Anti­gua, 10-23 Sep­tem­ber 2024

Click on the links to access pages with pho­to gal­le­ries of the various legs of the jour­ney:

The trip was beau­tiful, but the mood – my mood, at least – a bit melan­cho­lic, at the same time. It was a bit of a “fare­well” atmo­sphe­re, if you ask me per­so­nal­ly. Fare­well, Anti­gua – this was my very last trip on this beau­tiful ship in Spits­ber­gen (as far as I can tell, at least). Well, on the other hand, I’ll see you in Nor­way in just a cou­ple of weeks, so that’s gre­at 🙂 but we will miss you in Spits­ber­gen, Anti­gua!

And it was good­bye to parts of Sval­bard, which will be almost inac­ces­si­ble from 2025 due to new regu­la­ti­ons. Places like Fjer­de­breen, Idun­nes­et, Zei­pe­lod­den in Pal­an­der­buk­ta, Mof­fen – it won’t be pos­si­ble to land at the­se places any­mo­re (any many others, the­se are just a few examp­les from this par­ti­cu­lar trip). Unless you get the­re on a pri­va­te trip. Which is a joke, of cour­se, who is ever get­ting to such places in a pri­va­te con­text? (Strict rules will app­ly as to what is pri­va­te and what not.) So, that is sad, after 25 years of tra­vel­ling pret­ty much free­ly all over the place, or most of it, at least. Just fol­lo­wing wind, wea­ther and our own instincts and pas­si­on.

We’ll keep doing beau­tiful voy­a­ges in Spits­ber­gen, though. It will just be dif­fe­rent, and you won’t know the dif­fe­rence unless you have done trips like this one more than once until now.

Thank you, Anti­gua! And thank you to all who were part of it and made a con­tri­bu­ti­on to making it beau­tiful, memo­rable and enjoya­ble!

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