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Longyearbyen
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Gundamain had been handed over to her owners just three
Svalbard months previously and in that time they had already cruised
the Western Isles of Scotland en-route to Norway. This trip
started from Tromso, in northern Norway and we had
Sorkapp
broken our crossing to Svalbard with a night at anchor
on Bear Island, the setting for Alistair MacLean’s novel.
On approaching the southern point of Spitsbergen, Sorkapp,
we had encountered fog so dense that we could only just
Bjørnøya
see beyond the bow. This stretch of water is notorious for
the presence of ice brought down from the Arctic pack by
the East Spitsbergen Current. We therefore gave Sorkapp a
wide berth, so as to avoid this ice in the limited visibility.
Tromsø
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Aiming to make our first landfall entering Isfjord, we found
it to be ice-free. Thankfully this meant we could have a
peaceful nights sleep alongside the town of Longyearbyen.
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