Krisss_joss t1_je9ifi4 wrote
What's the strangest thing, man made or otherwise, that you've come across while exploring in the Arctic?
APECS_Polarscience OP t1_je9kcvw wrote
I think you can find several strange things in the Arctic! Personally, it's hard for me to get used to seeing people around Longyearbyen (Svalbard) with a rifle on their back like the one who wears a backpack
APECS_Polarscience OP t1_je9lpjp wrote
Hmm...I think the cabins on Svalbard, where you sometimes hide from the cold for lunch or to warm up before going on are pretty unique. In some you feel thrown back to very early days of polar exploration. I also found the ice caves of Svalbard quite strange and interesting. You crawl through a small hole in the ground and suddenly after a few meters you are in a 5 m high cavern of ice with a lot of different colors. And in Antarctica the Russian church is quite a strange thing to see.
Krisss_joss t1_jeefage wrote
That's a cool perspective, I imagine some of the structures up (or down 😂) there feel very "living", for lack of a better word. Like a super secret tree fort deep in the woods in which only a select few of each generation have contributed, improvised, and left scars in during their time.
APECS_Polarscience OP t1_jeako4f wrote
When on a reconnaissance flight with the helicopter along the shelf ice edge in Antarctica we discovered the leftovers of a research station/research container of unknown origin. I found it incredible that we were for days on the ship without seeing anything human made and then found traces of humankind left behind. Antarctica is an incredibly large continent, so the chance to discover something like this was rather small, I believe.
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