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| Wearing a saharan jacket in the Svalbard interior... |
| A large part of the Svalbard interior is covered by perennial ice: the Lomonosovfonna tabular ice sheet extends on the north-eastern part of Spits Bergen. It flows to the sea toward north, south and east. The shown picture was taken from the Trikoforfjellet mountain, 806 meters above sea level (16.4565325E -78.8081932N), an extraordinary panoramic lookout no tourist can reach. Actually I got the extraordinary luck to reach this special spot flying by helicopter. I had a job to carry out just there. I did what I was expected to do and after that I enjoyed the panorama of the wildest wilderness of Europe. The tabular ice sheets of the Svalbard are the only example of this kind of glacier that can be seen in Europe apart Iceland. Tabular ice sheets can be seen in Greenland or Antartica. However, in spite of the huge ice extension and the cloudy sky, at the time of my visit the temperature was quite good.
Just to indulge a whim, as a windbreaker I put my long-travelled Saharan jacket on my "pile" thermo-suit...
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