spitzbergen

The mountains have beautiful shapes.

This is a really interesting collectio of historical imags. The colour treatment gives them an interesting aesthitic quality.

Like an oil painting.

100 years later

Tourists still visit Spitsbergen.

A little further west along the Adventfjord, but partly the same mountain-view
as seen in the postcard of the tourist's house here above.

In spite of the caption, this suspiciously looks like Sarkofagen (in Longyeardalen), with its unmistakeable shape, doesn't it? And answering to myself: this is most probably Longyeardalen, taken at the height of the small tributary valley from west called Tverrdalen - and that is Sarkofagen.

csant; You are definitely right, this is Longyeardalen and Sarkofagen. The photo is shot a few hundred meters up from the seashore. The valley witch today is called Tverrdalen takes off to the west at the end moraines of the Longyearbreen. This glacier is located to the right of the mountain Sarkofagen. To the caption; This valley is located at Advent Bay / Adventfjorden, and the valley of Longyeardalen got its name in 1905 or 06, after the place Longyear City was established the year after JM Longyear took over / bought the rights to take out coal from the area. After some research, maps or papers prior to 1905 does not state any name of the valley - So - for the moment the name Tverdalen seems to be a plausible truth! Name translation Tverdalen; "side valley" or geological "valley that runs counter to the direction of the geological layers"

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Title says: Fra Danskøerne - From the danish islands.

Bellissimo paesaggio!!!