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Tempelfjorden the Arctic fjord

Tempelfjorden is a fjord branch at the inner end of Sassenfjorden, a part of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen. It is located between Sabine Land and Bünsow Land and is just 900 km from the North Pole , It got its name after the mountain Templet, which resembles a temple. to visit we did a snowmobile trip through typical Svalbard nature. We drove through some of the large valleys to the banks of the Sassenfjord and to Villa Fredheim, the hunting lodge that once housed the famous hunter Hilmar Nøis. The ethereal, twisted ice sculptures litter the frozen shoreline of Tempelfjorden, giving the landscape an otherworldly feel and creating a contrast with the towering ice cliff of the glacier and the mountains behind. They are natural flotsam, the scoured remnants of icebergs calved from the Tunabreen glacier, washed up on the shoreline.My 500 link 500px.com/yiannispavlis

 

 

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