Snesund (Snow Sound) is one of many natural channels in inner Scoresbysund. It is separating the islands Sorteø (Black Island) and Storeø (Great Island) in the west from the big island Milne Land in the east, connecting Rødefjord and Øfjord. It can accordingly be used as a shortcut during a circumnavigation of Milne Land, but then you miss some scenic fjords such as Harefjord, Rypefjord and the northern part of Rødefjord. The best is of course having enough time to sail into all of them ☺ and Snesund is a very senic passage. It has the narrowest part of all the great fjords surrounding Milne Land, but even this is almost 3 kilometers wide …
As the other fjords in the area, Snesund is very deep, even directly adjacent to its rocky, often near vertical shorelines. We took advantage of this bathymetry by parking our very robust ship Ópal directly on the shore, using a hose to stock with crystal clear glacier meltwater, filling our drinking water tanks with the best water you can imagine. Meanwhile, we took a little walk up the rocky gravel slope, visiting a smaller glacier tongue that had obviously retreated strongly in recent decades, making fascinating close contact with the glacier ice.
my new book is in print and it can now be ordered 🙂 it is a photo book with the title “Norwegens arktischer Norden (3): Die Bäreninsel und Jan Mayen”, with German text Click here for further details!
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Norwegens arktischer Norden (1): Spitzbergen
Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German. [shop url="https://shop.spitzbergen.de/en/polar-books/70-norwegens-arktischer-norden-1-aerial-arctic-9783937903262.html"] ← Back
Lofoten, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen from the air - Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German, but there is very little text, so I am sure that you will enjoy it regardless which languages you read (or not).
The companion book for the Svalbardhytter poster. The poster visualises the diversity of Spitsbergen‘s huts and their stories in a range of Arctic landscapes. The book tells the stories of the huts in three languages.
Comprehensive guidebook about Spitsbergen. Background (wildlife, plants, geology, history etc.), practical information including travelling seasons, how to travel, description of settlements, routes and regions.
Join an exciting journey with dog, skis and tent through the wintery wastes of East Greenland! We were five guys and a dog when we started in Ittoqqortoormiit, the northernmost one of two settlements on Greenland’s east coast.
12 postcards which come in a beautifully designed tray. Beautiful images from South Georgia across Antarctica from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea and up to Macquarie Island and Campbell Island.
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.