0407/2011
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Tomorrow we will be visiting Polish Polar Station at Hornsund (http://hornsund.igf.edu.pl).
Polish Polar Station is located at Polar Bear Bay (Isbjørnhamna), Hornsund fjord, West Spitsbergen island, Spitsbergen (Svalbard) archipelago. 77°00' N 15°33' E.
Read more … Polish Polar Station tomorrow!
0307/2011
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'Spitsbergen is extremely beautiful. It combines the three great elements: mountains, sea and ice. The area of Hornsund belongs to the most spectacular. It changes its face with weather and season changes' (Stanislaw Siedlecki, 'Home by the Pole').
Read more … Arctic is beautiful!
0207/2011
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Today is a successful day. Finally, our rosette, with eight bathometers attached, works well. Now we can use about 300 bottles that we have to collect water samples for nutrients from every second station from almost all sections. The chemical scientists will have a lot of work to do as well...
Read more … Successful day
0107/2011
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Today we start the next section - K, where we plan to collect water samples for nutrient stuff. In this case we had to put our rosette together again and some problems appeared...
Read more … Challenges
