Today we have had a nice arctic summer day with +7 degrees and the sun has been peeking through the clouds from time to time. We started th...

We arrived early morning to the entrance of Hornsund. The weather was not the best, with wind reaching moments of over 30 m/s and of cour...

Today we woke up to a quite foggy weather. We had to put our course a little further away from the ice edge to be able keep the speed up. We...

We arrived at Alkefellet in the early morning. It is classified as a medium size bird cliff in Svalbard and it is estimated that about 6...

For some of us this day started very early. In the night, at around 04.00 we woke up to the announcment: Polar bear on the shore! Since thi...

In our second day  of this trip we visited Ny Alesund a small and perhaps the northernmost settlement in the world only about 1231 km f...

Today we made two landings in the northern fjords that indent the north facing coast of the island of Spitsbergen. Our first stop was at so...

Understanding the name of this group of islands requires an explanation .The credited discoverer is Wilhelm Barents. In 1596 he named thi...

As we were having breakfast, we arrived at the Norwegian Island of Jan Mayen. The FRAM anchored and we went landed at a black volcanic sa...

On our morning arrival in Isafjordur we had temperatures of about 9°C or 48°F and a strong breeze and overcast skies. That did not...