Skansbukta

A great thing with this job as a field assistant is that you have to be out almost every day. About week a go we went for an overnight camping trip to Skansbukta, a bay that is located about 17 nm inwards Isfjorden from Longyearbyen. The name (engl. redoupt bay) it has got from a mountain Skansen which looks little bit like a castle. Skansen is well-known from it's bird colonies, which we were cheking out, and Skansbukta from the old plaster mine located there.

An old ferry perhaps used to transport miners

A mining car

Svalbard is full of old hunting huts. Here's one standing right front of Skansen.