Here's a closer look at the record low sea ice conditions around #Svalbard. The ice edge is still close to the 85°N line of latitude along the Atlantic front. That's a lot of open water into the Barents Sea region! Data from AMSR2.
#SVALBARD
The #submarine Nautilus left #Bergen in early August 1931, drawing crowds of locals who watched the refurbished US military submarine steam toward the open sea, on a voyage to #Svalbard with goal up going under the North pole ice to #Alaska.
The crew – twenty strong, including Australian adventurer and idea man George Hubert Wilkins and the renowned geophysicist Harald U. #Sverdrup – stocked up at Marineholmen before embarking on a perilous Arctic trek.
The voyage quickly turned chaotic: an early engine failure forced a tow to the Irish coast, a crewman drowned during the Atlantic crossing, and a second total breakdown left the sub adrift for two days until the USS Wyoming rescued it.
Even after extensive repairs in England, the Nautilus suffered further setbacks – engine trouble again, ice‑binding, and a missing depth‑gauge, likely sabotaged by a scared crewmember that had lost faith. Yet Wilkins pressed on, ultimately achieving a brief, battered breakthrough beneath the Spitsbergen ice before the vessel was purposefully sunk in Bergen fjord later that year.
Unlike its namesake from #JulesVerne stories, this Nautilus is only 0.06 leagues under the sea.
Photo via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-ok-19146.html
#Norway #Norge #NorskPix #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography
The crew – twenty strong, including Australian adventurer and idea man George Hubert Wilkins and the renowned geophysicist Harald U. #Sverdrup – stocked up at Marineholmen before embarking on a perilous Arctic trek.
The voyage quickly turned chaotic: an early engine failure forced a tow to the Irish coast, a crewman drowned during the Atlantic crossing, and a second total breakdown left the sub adrift for two days until the USS Wyoming rescued it.
Even after extensive repairs in England, the Nautilus suffered further setbacks – engine trouble again, ice‑binding, and a missing depth‑gauge, likely sabotaged by a scared crewmember that had lost faith. Yet Wilkins pressed on, ultimately achieving a brief, battered breakthrough beneath the Spitsbergen ice before the vessel was purposefully sunk in Bergen fjord later that year.
Unlike its namesake from #JulesVerne stories, this Nautilus is only 0.06 leagues under the sea.
Photo via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-ok-19146.html
#Norway #Norge #NorskPix #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography
#Photographer braves the #FrozenArctic to capture incredible #WildlifePortraits https://zurl.co/h8eUm | #KateGaribaldi #animals #ArcticFox #JoshuaHolko #nature #PolarBear #Svalbard
Während vorhin #Svalbard im :schenklradio_rainbow:#schenklradio lief, also die Band, hab ich einen interessanten Artikel über Svalbard, also den Archipel (Spitzbergen), aus der Paywall der LeMonde befreit:
Svalbard, the fastest-warming place on Earth
https://archive.ph/SRe6M/again?url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2025/09/28/svalbard-the-fastest-warming-place-on-earth_6745872_114.html
Nel 2024 "con temperature anche di 6°C superiori alla media stagionale, sono andate perdute circa 60 gigatonnellate di ghiaccio, una quantità corrispondente all’1% di tutta la copertura glaciale delle isole."
#Svalbard #CambiamentoClimatico #1ottobre #ClimateCrisis #climateCatastrophe
https://ilbolive.unipd.it/it/news/scienza-ricerca/lanomalo-scioglimento-ghiacci-svalbard-finestra
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#MetalInjection
AMENRA, SVALBARD, PALLBEARER & More Booked For Prepare The Ground 2026
#AMENRA #SVALBARD #MoreBookedForPrepareTheGround #EP #MetalInjection #metal #music
Norway's latest "ingenious" plan: monitor if Svalbard's #air is #radioactive enough to scare tourists away! 🤔 Because who wouldn't want to breathe in the fresh, crisp air of potential #nuclear #fallout while enjoying the #Arctic views? 🌬🧪
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/norway-monitor-airborne-radioactivity-svalbard #Norway #Svalbard #tourism #views #HackerNews #ngated
Norway to Monitor Airborne Radioactivity in Svalbard
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/norway-monitor-airborne-radioactivity-svalbard
#HackerNews #Norway #Airborne #Radioactivity #Svalbard #Monitoring #Environmental #News
I'm not in the position to move to #Svalbard why can't we rein in the #motorist #apocalypse in #Brooklyn so I can #exercise again in #ProspectPark while not having to bolt my window at night and crank the #air purifier
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-town-with-the-cleanest-air-in-the-world?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us #airquality #climate #climatechange #cars
In the Arctic region of Svalbard, scientists study impact of climate change on polar bears.
Some 300 polar bears live in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. But with sea ice rapidly receding due to climate change, researchers are trying to understand how the animals are adapting.
FRANCE 24's Olivier Morin, Matthew Kay and Solenn Marcoux report.
#Arctic #PolarBears #Svalbard #Norway #SeaIce #ClimateChange #Science
Växthusgasen är mer än 25 gånger kraftigare än koldioxid#metanutsläpp #klimat&miljö #arktis #växthusgaser #abisko #svalbard #koldioxid
Metanuppsläpp ökar när arktiska sjöar värms upp
Metanuppsläpp ökar när arktiska sjöar värms upp
Good news for the #environment: Longyearbyen is finally switching to #Diesel for #electricity generation, next month or the month after.
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/all-ready-transition-coal-diesel-longyearbyen
#coal #Svalbard #Norway
Norvège : Svalbard, pion stratégique russe | ARTE Reportage
Svalbard es un archipiélago ártico ubicado al norte de Noruega y parte del Reino de Noruega. Este conjunto de islas es uno de los lugares habitados más septentrionales de la Tierra.
Is #3I/ATLAS Made of #Antimatter? : Medium
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🔥🧊 La vague de chaleur sans précédent de l'été 2024 dans l'Arctique a fait fondre 1 % de la glace du #Svalbard, une fonte énorme (62 Gt) contribuant à hauteur de 0.16 mm à l'élévation du niveau mondial de la mer et offrant un aperçu de ce qui nous attend d'ici la fin du siècle
Svalbard, a year ago - September 2024
#svalbard #longyearbyen #dog #theVault
Why yes, we’ve reached the point in summer where I’m romanticizing winter ❄️
One of the gifts I received for my birthday this year was Cecilia Blomdahl’s book Life on Svalbard (a bucket list place), and I’ve really been enjoying sketching some of the landscapes in the book. The first image here is drawn from the book and the others are riffs on the same landscape. (Can you spot #OwlAdventuresArt in one of them?)
#hobonichi #svalbard #sketchbook #drawing #MastoArt #illustration #art
Ice bed by Nima Sarikhani
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