Wigdehlpynten is a flat little peninsula in inner Woodfjord. A little known and rarely visited place, but scenically beautiful (as the whole area) on a lovely day like this. Then, the sunlight will bring the colours out and it will make them shine: the mountains are carved out of Old Red Sandstone: deposited as sediment eroded from the Caledonian mountains, which were folded up a good 400 million years ago, during the Devonian (just roughly, 350-400 million years ago) in large areas of tectonic subsidence (“graben”). In this case, it is the so-called Andrée Land graben, after the part of Spitsbergen between Woodfjord and Wijdefjord. The reddish colour is derived from hematite, an iron oxide.
A fine summer day in this area, with a blue sky, green tundra and red mountains, is an unforgettably beautiful experience! If you have a sense for this kind of beauty …
The second panorama explains the name Woodfjord, earlier known as Wood Bay: the name is derived from the large amounts of driftwood which come with the currents from Siberia across the Arctic Ocean. Good raw material, by the way, to produce Spitsbergen driftwood picture frames 🙂
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.