tirsdag 1. april 2014

Barentsburg baby!

Only two hours after landing I was yet again back on a snow scooter. We were heading towards Barentsburg, a russian settlement west of Longyearbyen. On the way there we looked at huge outcrops showing faults and folding. Tipp topp tommel opp!

From the top left: Me and Heidi, reindeers, Alexandra and Alvar showing our current position, me and snow scooters, a drill hole into an anticline, me showing my flair gun.

When entering the city of Barentsburg it was clear that we no longer was on Norwegian territory. The style of the buildings, and the atmosphere was totally changed. The women working at the hotel looked like "typical" Russian women with purple aprons and strict makeup. We had to make an effort to make them smile, but eventually we made it :)

From top left: Lenin and a new building in the background, an older building from 1958, a little church at the front and an official building in the back, our hotel with Mark as scale, me posing like a Russian man, old house, the front of the school, people in my class; Jonas, Elin, Saami, Fredrik, Heidi and Siri Anne, the inside of the little church.

At the hotel we were fed with a lot of meat and vegetables with extra butter. You need carbs and protein in the Arctic! The whole next day we drove around in the area and looked at geological structures inside the HUGE monocline of the west side of Svalbard.

 From the top left: a fault propagating fold with Jacob as scale, the view on our way to spring bay, students in the arctic, me jumping, scooters, one of Alvar's geological drawings, Alvar showing the HUGE monocline, student taking a picture of the view, the view!, students climbing up a top, Alvar drawing a geological interpretation of the mountain in the background.

For lunch we ate dry-tech food. As no one wanted the fish type everyone jumped onto the box with the dry-tech to fetch something else. I ate lamb stew and cattle stew. Jummy!

From top left: Marita pouring water into the dry-tech bag, Siri Anne proudly showing of her lamb stew, mixing the content, students cooking.

GROUP PICTURE!
Everyone say "structural geologyyyyyy"

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