Norra ishavet

Det fanns en tid, långt innan trådlös kommunikation och satellitnavigering var uppfunna, då oförvägna svenska vetenskapsmän utforskade vita fläckar i Arktis. Till sin hjälp hade de skickliga, men oftast anonyma, sjöfarare som med enkel navigationsut…

Svalbard är en stor vildmark, en av europas sista. En enormt spännande plats att besöka. Dock inte helt riskfritt. Isbjörnar, sprickor i isen, kyla och annorlunda väder har alla kostat åtskilliga liv. Det är livsavgörande att förbereda sig väl. Rätt…

The Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskiold (1832-1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became…

The Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskiold (1832-1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became…

The operation of a commercial shipping route through the Northwest Passage - a 1450 kilometre marine corridor linking Baffin Bay to the Beaufort Sea - has been a recurring dream of traders since the late fifteenth century. It is now fast becoming a…

Polynyas are relatively ice-free regions when compared to the areas around them, and have been suggested as being foci for energy transfer between the atmosphere and ocean, ice 'factories', and critical areas with respect to polar ecosystems and bio…

In May 1845, the famous Arctic explorer John Franklin (1786-1847) embarked on another attempt to find the elusive North-West Passage. He never returned from this voyage, and was last seen by whalers in Baffin Bay in July 1845. Some thirty rescue mis…

The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century. "The Ice Diaries" tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS "Nautilus," the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.…

Within the joint German-Russian research project "Siberian River Run-off (SIRRO)" multidisciplinary studies were carried out in the Ob and Yenisei estuaries and adjacent southern Kara Sea (Arctic Ocean). The overall goal of the project was to extend…

The structure of sedimentary basins of the Russian Arctic Seas is studied and illustrated by a number of maps, cross-sections and geophysical models. The calculated density models of the Earth crust illustrate the deep structure of the main blocks o…

Although it is generally accepted that the Arctic Ocean is a very sensitive and important region for changes in the global climate, this region is the last major physiographic province of the earth whose short-and long-term geological history is muc…

The Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskiold (1832-1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became…

The H.M.S. Investigator spent the years 1850-4 in the Western Arctic engaged in a search for the lost expedition of the explorer Sir John Franklin. In this 1857 publication Alexander Armstrong (1818-99), surgeon and naturalist to the ship, gives a f…