Queen's College Cambridge Svartisen Expedition, 1976

• 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

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-...