Russian Settlement and Land Rise in Nordaustlandet, Spitsbergen

Presents evidence of stable shoreline in the Murchisonfjorden region from 1957-1958 studies of a Russian hunting hut on Nordre Russoya. Age of the hut is determined as at least 100 years from settlement records and radiocarbon dating. It is located only 1.2 m above high-tide level and 0.8 m above th...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:ARCTIC
Main Author: Blake, Jr., Weston
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1961
Subjects:
Animal food
Biological sampling
Cannibalism
Ground squirrels
Internal organs
Lemmings
Polar bears
Predation
Seals (Animals)
Trichinella
Walruses
Murchisonfjorden
Nordaustlandet
Arctic
Spitsbergen
walrus*
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66716
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Summary:Presents evidence of stable shoreline in the Murchisonfjorden region from 1957-1958 studies of a Russian hunting hut on Nordre Russoya. Age of the hut is determined as at least 100 years from settlement records and radiocarbon dating. It is located only 1.2 m above high-tide level and 0.8 m above the highest tides; hence the land has risen less than one meter in the past century. Any uplift that is occurring is probably balanced by the rise in sea level from glacier shrinkage.

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