Alasdairhornet
The weather wasn’t exciting this morning, but better than yesterday. We walked southwards towards Alasdairhornet where the ...
The weather wasn’t exciting this morning, but better than yesterday. We walked southwards towards Alasdairhornet where the ...
This morning we arrived at the Polish research station in Hornsund in beautiful and calm weather. A warm shower is nice after two and half weeks ...
The waves never stopped rolling in, so we had to stay put during Monday, the planned departure day back to Khatanga. Constant strong wind from the northwest during 4 days, and with no tendency to stop. So alternatives had to be ...
... of yesterday with minimizing our personal equipment for the Zodiac trip to Sørkapp and using the internet connection at the Polish station for work and private things. Today we repacked food for five people for ten days (Kuba left us ...
Båthamna (boat-harbour) is a small (~ 100 m) northwards opening bay in the about 10 km wide southwards opening Sommerfeldtbukta. ...
I natt gjordes första försöket med ”dredging”. Det gick över förväntan och vi lyckas få upp mer än 100 kg sten genom att ...
The weather being still the same, sunshine and a hard wind, we walked eastwards through Trollstabbane and around the southern ...
In calm but cloudy weather we walked again northwards to better understand the structure and stratigraphy of the area we visited two days ago. ...
Deltagarna i forskningsexpeditionen på Nordpolen. Den 22 augusti 2012 kl 23.50 – några timmar senare än beräknat – nådde Oden till slut Nordpolen för sjunde gången. Vi hade förberett oss i, vad vi tyckte, rimlig tid innan och öppnat ...
... winds around Sørkapp and from the largest glacier in the area, Olsokbreen, made the first 90 minutes of the trip rather uncomfortable. Then the sea was calm but full of ice. In the middle of Hornsund the waves were high and breaking – no ...
Området runt vår nordpol är för meteorologen lite okänd mark. Här uppe på de höga latituderna finns väldigt få, i stort sett inga, observationer. På grund av detta saknas viktig information, som indata till ...
... past six when a board from the bed above mine fell down on me while the hut was shaking in the wind gusts. A minute later Majek shouted his alarm – the Zodiac was moving again. We quickly dressed up and went out to find the boat some 30 m ...
... hood, a broken cover in the engine (including the cast aluminum bolts), an electrical connection, two pipes and the fixation of the pressure sensor for the fuel injection system – and sand, sand, sand everywhere. We can’t do much about ...
... with a warm engine and probably it is due to the broken pressure sensor in the fuel injection system. Out on the water and under load everything seems to be alright. Good for us. We will visit some interesting localities along the coast ...
... Efter några intensiva dygn med besök på Nordpolen så har vi nu kommit in i ett skede då vi mer kommer att fokusera på isstationer och insamling av vatten, iskärnor och plankton. Av detta så kommer våra svenska ...
The weather report promised 11 m/s wind from the south/southeast and somehow my sleep was uneasy. Around six in the morning the ...
Today we left Hyttevika at noon when the weather looked fine. The rain started again 10 minutes later… But only for 30 minutes. We passed ...
... engine blocks now the switching of gears. And we can’t fix it, although we tried. Majek called the Polish station and asked them if we can borrow an engine from them. This seems to be no problem at all, just that they can’t ...
Today we have been one month on Svalbard. At half past seven in the morning the four from Werenhus arrived at Hyttevika. They were on their way to the Polish station ...
Yesterday, in the early evening, the polar bear came back. Three of us were enjoying a nap while I thought that there was something around the house which is more than the wind. Shortly after there was a more than decent knocking at ...