View east across Smeerenburgfjorden from Smeerenburgsletta. Inserted historical images from left to right, top: 1693 version of Jan Jansz map of “Hollantsche Bay” as published by Hendrick Donker in his De nieuwe geoctroyeerde verbeterde en vermeerdede stuurmans zee-spiegel: T Eerste en tweede deel Van de Nieuwe Stuurmans Zee-Spiegel. Verlichtende de Noordsche, Ostersche, en Westersche Ship-Vaert, Amsterdam (courtesy, National Library, Portugal). Jan Jan- sz, 1651, “De Hollantsche ofte Mourits-Bay” engraved map published in De Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel by Jan Jansz, Amsterdam, 1651 (this version from Wieder 1919). This is the first printed local map of the whaling area in northwest Spitsbergen. To identify the plate of the 1651 version of this map number 22 1/2 is printed in the lower right corner. It also seems to be the first map where two glaciers are each marked as “ysbergh”. Judging from their positions it is most likely todays Kennedybreen (left) and Frambreen. Pieter Goos, 1657, “Spitzberga” in De Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel originally published by Jan Jansz, Amsterdam, 1651 (courtesy, National Library, Spain). Below from left to right: John Clevely’s 1774 version of “View of an iceberg” in Spitsbergen (courtesy, British Museum). Clevely’s version of the glacier is based on a sketch by Philippe d’Auvergne. The chart of the area made by Constantine Phipps in 1773 and W. Byrne’s print of the “View of an iceberg” based on the sketch by Philippe d’Auvergne as published in 1774 in A voy- age towards the North Pole, undertaken by His Majesty’s Command 1773 by Constantine John Phipps. Below: panorama view by Anders Beer Wilse, 1908, (courtesy, Norsk Folkemuseum). Top and bottom panoramas Tyrone Martinsson 2012.
Temaet for årets Svalbardkurs var : Klima for endring? Svalbardkurset arrangeres årlig av NTNU, UNIS og NP, og gir en tverrfaglig innføring i Svalbards natur og miljø, historie og kulturminner, næringsliv og samfunn, politikk og rettsforhold. Kurset retter seg primært mot forvaltere, saksbehandlere, forskere og studenter med Svalbard som arbeidsfelt.
Temaet for årets Svalbardkurs var : Klima for endring? Svalbardkurset arrangeres årlig av NTNU, UNIS og NP, og gir en tverrfaglig innføring i Svalbards natur og miljø, historie og kulturminner, næringsliv og samfunn, politikk og rettsforhold. Kurset retter seg primært mot forvaltere, saksbehandlere, forskere og studenter med Svalbard som arbeidsfelt.