Smeerenburg, Amsterdam Island - Svalbard - 1
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Whalers grave pushed from the ground by frost heave. Smeerenburg is a Dutch whaling station occupied from 1614 to 1655 at the north east tip of Spitsbergen.
Photo; © Paul Ward - These are pictures from a cruise around Svalbard inside the Arctic Circle in high summer.