At the start of week 2 my class and I left Longyearbyen for the first time, setting out for our week long field cruse. The work took us around the west side of the island to the Island’s northern most point. Each day we stopped off at different sites to do data collection for our group projects and in the evenings we had...
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It’s 1 o’clock in the morning on Saturday and the girls finally landed after a hefty 18 hours of travelling and 2000nok spent on duty free by Vicky, the shopaholic. The tiredness went out the window when we walked off the plane to 7 degrees Celsius looking at glacially carved mountains lit up by the midnight sun. Like 2 seconds later we saw...
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Week 1
Arrived in Longyearben in the early hours of Saturday morning (29th July), but being so far north means that there is 24hour day light so it felt like mid-day! Once at the accommodation, I had plenty of time to unpack and head to the grocery shop to stock up with food and then gather my stuff together for my first private trip the...
