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Well, while all sorts of historical trash was lying around at the western end of the bay, something far more gripping was happening at [...]

VIRGOHAMNA In 1912, Fridjof Nansen, one of Norways most renowned polar explorers, visited Virgohamna and described it as "...a desolate, dismal place...a disagreeable bay...". [...]

THE MOST NORTHERLY (AND DUTCH) WHALING STATION The next morning was clear and bright so we headed off to Ytre Norskøya. This was once [...]

A FOGGY DAY We awoke to a dark grey day. A thick, wet fog lay over us. The shore, only 100m away, loomed darkly [...]

SITTING OUT A GALE We had spent two days at Kobbefjorden, sitting out a gale from the northwest. The anchorage appeared to be well [...]

FOG AND SCENERY We left our anchorage at Ebeltofthamna at 0400 in the morning, to catch a good weather window to make it up [...]

OTHER-WORLDLY Anchored at Ebeltofthamna, once the wind dropped, we sat in an almost silent world. In front of us, and astern of the boat, [...]

MORE ICEBERGS After coffee and cookies with Maarten, Matthijs and Deborah on Saraban’de, we dropped our lines and headed northwest across Kongsfjorden to Krossfjorden [...]

After a night at anchored at Engelsbukta, our next stop was going to be Ny-Ålesund.     Frederieke was [...]

So far, other than in Longyearbyen we had not been on land in Svalbard, what with polar bears being around and not having the [...]