Smeerenburg, Amsterdam Island - Svalbard - 3

There are the remains of blubber ovens on the beach at Smeerenburg, literally "blubber town" in Dutch. In the space would have gone a great "try pot" where the blubber (fat) from whales was rendered down, the sides of the oven would have been built up with the yellow and red bricks seen which were brought as ballast in ships coming to Smeerenburg.