Queen's College Cambridge Svartisen Expedition, 1976

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-...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1977
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Svartisen
Mo i Rana
Glomdalen
Ice cap
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400000978
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400000978
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Summary: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.

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