Coastal Landscape Dynamics in NE Sørkapp Land (SE Spitsbergen), 1900–2005

• Published in: AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
• Main Authors: Wieslaw Ziaja, Wojciech Maciejowski, Krzysztof Ostafin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2009
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Sørkapp Land; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447-38.4.201

This report presents the current dynamics of the natural environment and landscape in a part of the mountainous southeastern Spitsbergen coast on the Barents Sea in 1900–2005. Its current state substantially varies from what is shown on recently published topographic maps actual for 1936. The physic...