An oasis of civility

Icebergs in the water near the glacier at Hornsund (photo by Anneke van den Brink)
25 August 2018 | Category: Svalbard

Alas! We remain unshowered! Our luck improved since our first sampling attempt on Edgeøya, and finally we were beginning to fill our sample bottle storage box. As our boat made its way through glassy waters surrounded by steep, scoured cliffs where landslides had exposed the permafrost in some areas, we…