Coastal landscape degradation and disappearance of Davislaguna Lake, Sørkappland, Svalbard, 1900–2021

• Published in: Land Degradation & Development
• Main Authors: Ziaja, Wieslaw, Ostafin, Krzysztof, Maciejowski, Wojciech, Kruse, Frigga
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Davislaguna; Svalbard; glacier; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice; Tidewater; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.4765; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ldr.4765

Abstract The paper describes the transformation of the coastal landscape near former Davislaguna Lake, SE Spitsbergen. It is a comparative study which outlines the changing state of the area based on old maps, other archival materials, remote sensing data from the years 1900 to 2021, and our own fie...