Cruise day 7
August 9th 2012 Today started with the ubiquitous glacier-front cruise. It is impossible to get enough of this scenery, willing the front of the glacier to collapse (or “calve’). No luck today. Heard a few cracks from within the glacier but no big falls of ice.
The highlight today was surely the afternoon stop at an ex-Russian mining town called Pyramiden. Any signatory to the Svalbard treaty is entitled to
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