Daily Expedition Reports
17 May 2018

St. Jonsfjorden, Spitsbergen, 5/17/2018, National Geographic Explorer

Aboard the National Geographic Explorer
Arctic

After watching three bears yesterday in Wahlbergfjorden, we have to travel quite a long way today—the final day of our voyage—to reach our next destination, closer and closer to Longyearbyen.

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Jonathan Zaccaria, Expedition Leader

At age 24 Jonathan had his first experience in Antarctica as a scientist at the coastal French Dumont d'Urville Station. Located on the windiest place on Earth (regularly around 200km/h, maximum up to 320 km/h), and bounded by sea ice eight months a ...

Krossfjorden to Smeerenburgfjorden

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St. Jonsfjorden, Spitsbergen, 5/17/2018, National Geographic Explorer

Jonathan Zaccaria, Expedition Leader

Northern Spitsbergen

Krossfjorden to Smeerenburgfjorden

Norway's Fjords and Arctic Svalbard