Smeerenburg, Amsterdam Island - Svalbard - 7

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Smeerenburg, Amsterdam Island - Svalbard - 7


The rear of a whale skull, most probably a Northern Right Whale and most probably from the 1600's, the bump in the middle will have articulated with the first vertebra.



Photo; © Paul Ward - These are pictures from a cruise around Svalbard inside the Arctic Circle in high summer.