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Queen's College Cambridge Svartisen Expedition, 1976

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

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On 26 June 1976 a party of eight embarked MV Blenheim at Newcastle on the first stage of the expedition's journey to Svartisen. Situated on the Arctic Circle, north of the steel town of Mo-I-Rana, Svartisen is a plateau ice cap roughly 24 km in diameter. A deep valley, Glomdalen, running north-east to south-west splits the ice cap into two halves. Surveys made over the past 100 years have indicated that an extensive and almost continuous retreat of the ice limit has taken place.

Type
Field Work
Information
Polar Record , Volume 18 , Issue 116 , May 1977 , pp. 491
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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