@climatebrad
Do we know when the older photo is from?

EDIT: #NeverMind I didn't hover for the alt-text! 1928! So nearly a century ago. And look at all that ghost ice!

Svalbard, for the less geographically-inclined, is a large archipelago FAR off northern Norway, **midway to the North Pole**. I hadn't heard of it before studying Norwegian. :)

#ThingsYouLearnWhenYouLearnNorwegian

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