ubeetrip: Longyearbyen, Svalbard

Route: Amsterdam, Overveen, Amsterdam, North Sea, Alesund, Norwegian Sea, Longyearbyen, Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park, Polar Ice Cap, Ny-Alesund, Jan Mayen and Greenland Sea, Seydisfjordur, Akureyri, Isafjordur, North Atlantic Ocean, Heimaey, Reykjavík, Invergordon, Amsterdam - ship Ms Rotterdam.

Places: Isfjorden, Longyearbyen, Taubanesentralen, Svalbard Church, Platåfjellet-Tverrdalen, Longyearbyen River, Vei 100, North Pole Expedition Museum, Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Wildlife: Puffin, Common Eider, Snow bunting, Svalbard reindeer, Little auk, Barnacle goose, Black Guillemot, Fulmar, Whale.

Main

⏳ July 2019

Isfjorden (Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

Puffin

Common Eider

Longyearbyen

Taubanesentralen – The (Most Northern) Norwegian Coal Mining Building

Svalbard Church

Longyearbyen, Svalbard

Snow bunting

Platåfjellet-Tverrdalen

Svalbard reindeer

Snow bunting

Little auk

Svalbard reindeer

Longyearbyen River, Vei 100

Snow bunting

Barnacle goose

Snow bunting

Common Eider

North Pole Expedition Museum

Black Guillemot

Svalbard Global Seed Vault (foggy weather)

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, started the vault to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds that are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault is an attempt to ensure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large-scale regional or global crises. The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement among the Norwegian government, the Crop Trust, and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center.