Buchholzbukta is located in the easternmost part of Spitsbergen between Heleysund and Kapp Payer. The landscape is wide and open, with a barren tundra plain and some small rivers.
The coastal waters are shallow and further south, towards Heleysund, the coast is a low rocky cliff coast of basaltic rocks. This makes Buchholzbukta altogether a difficult place to get to unless the weather is really calm.
It is accordingly hardly ever visited today and this was no different in historical times. Only one wintering from the years of overwintering trappers is known from the 1920. It was a group of 3 Norwegian hunters including one woman. They let their boat freeze in a sheltered bay in the Heleysund area for the winter and built two huts, one in Straumsland and one in Buchholzbukta.
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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.