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Spitsbergen with SV Antigua, 10-23 September 2024

Part 4: the west coast

Back to the west coast! We spent yet ano­ther full day in the far north, in Sal­ly­ham­na and Smee­ren­burg­fjord. Against our hopes, we did not see any polar bear that day eit­her and we were get­ting a bit anxious about our remai­ning chan­ces to see one. Well, it would be a beau­tiful trip also wit­hout a polar bear sight­ing – we do expli­ci­te­ly not run polar bear safa­ris – and on the other hand, we still had some time ahead of us.

Sallyhamna

Sal­ly­ham­na in nor­thwest Spits­ber­gens.

The fol­lo­wing day brought ama­zing land­scape and light in St. Jons­fjord.

Glacier, Jonsfjord

Gla­cier in St. Jons­fjord.

The reinde­er at Alk­hor­net were ama­zing, and so was the gla­cier Bore­breen. The land­scape on Flin­thol­men – fasci­na­ting. But we still had not see a polar bear … by now, one would have to be a bit nai­ve to still main­tain hope for a polar bear sight­ing, or ..? But the trip is real­ly over when the ship is along­side in the har­bour of Lon­gye­ar­by­en, no ear­lier than that. And inde­ed, with a bit of luck, we found polar bears, in Dick­son­fjord – three of them! Talk of luck on the very last after­noon! With a distance of quite exact­ly 500 m, they were a bit far away for most came­ras, but it is about the expe­ri­ence.

Polar bears, Dicksonfjord

Polar bears in Dick­son­fjord.

Pho­to gal­lery – Spits­ber­gen with SV Anti­gua: on the west coast

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

To page/photo gal­lery:  → Part 1: from Lon­gye­ar­by­en to nor­thwest Spits­ber­gen  → Part 2: Lief­defjord and Wood­fjord  → Part 3: Nord­aus­t­land and Mof­fen  → Part 4: the west coast

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