Links to the digital world
This site is under construction and will offer links to many different sites with interesting polar content. I have checked every site and found it intersting and useful, but responsibility for the information and content of external websites remains with the respective owner of these websites.
Svalbard
The Seed Vault. Spitsbergen's biggest media issue since the Italia catastrophe in 1928 and built to save the world, if ...
Dinosaur skeleton remains found in recent years (2004-2007) in Isfjord, by the Natural History Museum of the University in Oslo.
Svalbard environment - official Norwegian website, Norwegian.
Webcams on Spitsbergen.
Michelle van Dijk's website - a lot of information, fotos, enthusiasm!
Arjen Drost, a colleague and friend, birdwatcher/naturalist and dedicated photographer.
Polarinstitut Norwegian Polar Institure. Offers, among others, topographic and geological maps and literature about Svalbard. Interesting project: MOSJ (Miljöovervakning av Svalbard and Jan Mayen: monitoring of climate-related environmental parameters in the arctic. Language: Norwegian).
The Flora of Svalbard. Everything about Spitsbergen's plant life.
Image archive of the Norwegian Polar Institute - a real treasure!
Spitsbergen The Svalbard pages.
Icecharts (Norwegian)
Spitzbergenkeramik Spitsbergen-related pottery.
Spitsbergen Travel - Spitsbergen's largest tour operator, offering everything from daytrips to longer expeditions in summer and winter.
Sysselmannen (Gouvernor of Svalbard).
The Andrée-Museum in Gränna, Sweden (Swedish).
Northern light station in Adventdalen near Longyearbyen.
Svalbardposten, the local newspaper from Longyearbyen (Norwegian).
Svalbard tourism, the official touristic website, very informative and useful.
Birdlife of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
Svalbard, Hopen, Bear Island, Jan Mayen. Private website with photos, facts etc (Norwegian).
Hornsund - the Polish research station in southern Spitsbergen.
UNIS - the University courses on Svalbard.
Kingsbay - Ny Ålesund on the web.
Svalbardmuseum, the museum in Longyearbyen.
Weatherforecast for Longyearbyen.
The Mars-project in the Bockfjord.
SSF (Svalbard Science Forum). Coordinates research in Svalbard.
Icepeople: "The world's northernmost alternative newspaper".
Polar areas in general
WWF - environmental work in the Arctic. Concerns everybody and very interesting.
AECO Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators
Ophrys Photography - images not only from the Arctic.
Maps illustrating various subjects (environmental, political) and areas within the Arctic.
The Swedish Museum of Natural History has a very useful website on botany (Swedish).
Expedition cruise operators
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Oceanwide Expeditions Expedition style cruises to the Arctic and Antarctica |
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The specialist for diving in the Arctic and Antarctica. |
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UK based specialist in small group wilderness, wildlife, diving and photography trips from the Equator to the Poles.
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Grands espaces polar voyages. A good contact if you are looking for a French-speaking voyage to the Arctic or Antarctic. |
Antarctica
IAATO International Association Of Antarctica Tour Operators. Organization where most companies offering trips to Antarctica are represented. Main goal: self-control of Antarctic tourism industry with respect to environmental issues. Contains various information of interest, among others statistics on Antarctic tourism.
Stanford's London-based Bookstore where maps published by the British Antarctic Survey can be purchased.
BAS (British Antarctic Survey) British Antarctic research. Various information about Antarctica, among others British stations, actual weather data,...
SGSSI Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
South Georgia Homepage
Antarctic Treaty Secretary: The home of the "government" of Antarctica.
Australian Antarctic Division (AAD): Australian Antarctic research institute with highly interesting online magazine.
SGHT - The South Georgia Heritage Trust is doing excellent work for the island in the south.
Greenland
GEUS Geological survey of Denmark. Offers, among others, geological maps and literature about Greenland.
Nanu Travel offers trips in East Greenland (Scoresbysund), among others, dog sledge trips.
Scoresbysund Settlement in East Greenland (official website).
Atuagkat Specialised bookstore in Nuuk (West Greenland). All kinds of literature about Greenland.
TSW-Publishing, based in Scotland's highlands, translates and publishes fine books, which so far have been available only in Danish, such as "Fifty Years With Sirius", about the legendary sledge patrol in North-East Greenland.
East Greenland - all you want to know.
Sermitsiaq Greenlandic newspaper with Danish section and English newsletter.
Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen official homepage.
Ishavsforeningen Jan Mayen. Dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage on Jan Mayen.
Miscellaneous
Glacierbooks in Scotland offers a fine selection of mostly old books about polar expeditions.
Marine mammals info site.