How much dursban have you used to kill termites at your home in Longyearbyen? How much methyl parathion has been used to kill boll weevils on cotton plants in Ny-Ålesund? And how much endosulfan has been used to kill insects in apple orchards in Svea? While all of these questions are silly, the reality is […]

15 november 2009: the Spitsbergen Airship Museum, the museum in Longyearbyen dedicated to the polar explorations, is now one year old. In total we have had 3 600 individual visitors. We consider this quite good considering 2009 has been our first year. […] Because of Hallvard Stangeland’s work we know that the majority of the […]

CO2 can be stored on Svalbard, researchers conclude after finding a storage site 1,000 meters below the permafrost. This is the first time someone has looked into whether CO2 can be stored below the surface on the mainland. Read the article on Offshore247.

Svalbard Reindeer. View more presentations from quercuscymru.

Finally, it’s ready the website I’ve dedicated to my wonderful trip to Svalbard islands. In the website you’ll find, besides the main navigation, top right in the page, two big sections in the sidebar: Polar Expedition in Svalbard and Svalbard Photos, each of them refers to the relative section and to the pages, to give […]

I’ve bought this book in the Spitzbergen Airship Museum (it was less expensive, there) in Longyearbyen. As you can see in the subtitle, it’s a complete guide to the arctic archipelago of Svalbard islands. The book talks about nature and history, places and regions and gives you useful and important information about these islands. The […]