A Cultural Landscape Emerges: Analyzing the Evolution of Two Historic North Pole Expedition Bases in Virgohamna, Svalbard, from Trash to a Protected Cultural Heritage Site

• Published in: Land
• Main Author: Anne Cathrine Flyen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2023
• Subjects: cultural heritage; cultural landscape; expedition site; heritage values; heritagization; Svalbard; Agriculture; S; Andrée; North Pole; Virgohamna; Wellman
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081481; https://doaj.org/article/1de35f90fd2e435aac08c42c041f3c8b

The identification and preservation of cultural landscapes worthy of protection is a challenging task, as their significance is often not immediately apparent. Analyzing the process through which a site or landscape became a heritage site and understanding the historical context and the factors that...