Coastal Erosion Affecting Cultural Heritage in Svalbard. A Case Study in Hiorthhamn (Adventfjorden)—An Abandoned Mining Settlement

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Ionut Cristi Nicu, Knut Stalsberg, Lena Rubensdotter, Vibeke Vandrup Martens, Anne-Cathrine Flyen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: coastal erosion; shoreline; monitoring; geomorphological mapping; cultural heritage; Svalbard; DSAS; high Arctic; Adventfjorden; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062306

Hiorthhamn is an abandoned Norwegian coal mining settlement with a loading dock and a lot of industrial infrastructure left in the coastal zone. In this study, changes in the position of 1.3 km of the Hiorthhamn shoreline, which affect cultural heritage, is described for a time-period spanning 92 ye...