There is a whole couple of „roads“ meeting here at the western exit of Ny-Ålesund. The road to the west goes to the airfield and to the geodetic station at Brandalspynten. The one to the southwest is to the freshwater lake, the way to the south leads you around Ny-Ålesund and further into Kongsfjord. Most tourists will not go any of these ways, but continue with their walk within the settlement. In case you continue further and away from the settlement, you are in polar bear country from here on – take your precautions.
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.