Panorama of a trappers' hut, icebergs and glaciers
Spitsbergen’s east coast: Mohnbukta
The landscapes on the east coast of Spitsbergen are huge and wild, wide and open. Typical are more or less plateau-shaped mountains and dark rocks, giving the landscape a sometimes even gloomy appearance. As in most other bays on the east coast (except Agardhbukta), the inland is strongly glaciated and some glaciers have calving fronts at the coast.
Many smaller icebergs with fantastic shapes and colours are frozen in the fast ice of Mohnbukta. These images were taken inside an iceberg that had several old meltwater caves.