A meltwater bay where a glacier at Recherchefjorden on Western Svalbard used to reach.
A meltwater bay where a glacier at Recherchefjorden on Western Svalbard used to reach. The moraine shows the massive rate of retreat in the last 100 years. All of Svalbards glaciers are retreating, even in the north of the archiapelago despite only being around 600 miles from the North Pole.
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