Russian Settlement and Land Rise in Nordaustlandet, Spitsbergen

• 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

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.