Åneset is a flat point near the northeastern corner of Edgeøya, in the eastern part of Freemansund. The high-arctic character really comes through in this barren landscape! One main factor is the cold east Spitsbergen current which keeps the climate in this area colder than on the west coast, where a northern branch of the Gulf Stream keeps the climate milder and more maritime and the waters largely ice-free year round.
The scenery here is characterised by a wide-stretching and largely flat coastal plain. On a smaller scale, raised beaches and ice wedges make for some lovely geometric patterns in the barren tundra over large areas. How good would it be to see that from the air! Well, not impossible these days 🙂
There are remains of a hut standing as a ruin in this forgotten corner of the Arctic. It is not much but a ruin, but it is the oldest hut built by “modern” (post Pomor) trappers on Edgeøya. It was a group of hunters who came with the small sealing ship Elina Kristine and built the hut in 1904. One part of the group kind of stranded on Tusenøyane, on the south side of Edgeøya, for a good part of the winter.
Another view of the hut at Åneset. I shot these panoramas in July 2018; the hut is about to fall apart quickly now and soon there won’t be anything left but scattered remains.
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!
BOOKS, CALENDAR, POSTCARDS AND MORE
This and other publishing products of the Spitsbergen publishing house in the Spitsbergen-Shop.
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.