Bear Island Research Articles

Norwegian Arctic Research

IT was some ten years ago that the Norwegian Government, having acquired by treaty the sovereignty of Spitsbergen, instituted a department to deal with the scientific exploration of Spitsbergen, Bear Island and other arctic regions, including areas outside Norwegian jurisdiction. This department, Norges Svalbard-og Ishavs-Undersokelser, under the direction of Dr. A. Hoel, has now published a record of the ten years of its activity (Skrifter om Svalbard og Ishavet, No. 73). Earlier Norwegian work was recounted in a previous publication (No. 1, loc. cit ; 1929). Almost every summer expeditions have been at work in Spitsbergen and East Greenland and occasionally in other islands, as Jan Mayen, Bear Island and White Island. In Svalbard (Spitsbergen, North-East Land, Bear Island, etc.) 560 sq. km. have been mapped on the land and 40,000 sq. km. from the air, and in East Greenland 9,200 sq. km. and 30,000 sq. km. In addition, large areas of the arctic seas have been charted and much oceanographical work accomplished. But no aspect of research has been overlooked, and the department has even erected navigation beacons and lights and introduced the musk-ox and the arctic hare to Spitsbergen. Winters have been used for working up results, and already the publications of the department number over seventy. The greater part of the cost is met by a State grant, but private contributors also help. The volume makes a fine record of careful scientific work.

Notes on the Animal Ecology of Bear Island

Notes on the Animal Ecology of Bear Island

XVII.—Parasitic Hymenoptera from Bear Island

(1934). XVII.—Parasitic Hymenoptera from Bear Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Vol. 14, No. 80, pp. 203-207.

Polish Polar Year Expedition, Bear Island, 1932–33

<i>Polish Polar Year Expedition, Bear Island</i>, 1932–33

LI.—The freshwater Crustacea of Bear Island

LI.—<i>The freshwater Crustacea of Bear Island</i>

Polish Polar Year Expedition, Bear Island, 1932–33

Polish Polar Year Expedition, Bear Island, 1932–33

Notes on the Birds of Bear Island

IbisVolume 75, Issue 2 p. 283-301 Notes on the Birds of Bear Island G. C. L. Bertram B.A., G. C. L. Bertram B.A.Search for more papers by this authorDavid Lack B.A., M.B.O.U., David Lack B.A., M.B.O.U.Search for more papers by this author G. C. L. Bertram B.A., G. C. L. Bertram B.A.Search for more papers by this authorDavid Lack B.A., M.B.O.U., David Lack B.A., M.B.O.U.Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1933 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1933.tb03637.xCitations: 7AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume75, Issue2April 1933Pages 283-301 RelatedInformation

Bear Island

Bear Island

49. The Oligochæta of Spitsbergen and Bear Island; Some Additions and a Summary.

49. The Oligochæta of Spitsbergen and Bear Island; Some Additions and a Summary.

The Norwegian Expedition to Spitzbergen and Bear Island

The Norwegian Expedition to Spitzbergen and Bear Island

Birds in the Ecology of Spitsbergen and Bear Island

Birds in the Ecology of Spitsbergen and Bear Island

Bear Island

Bear Island

IX.—Diptera (Orthorrhapha Brachycera and Cyclorrhapha) from Spitsbergen and Bear Island. Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen, 1921.—No. 22

IX.—<i>Diptera</i> (<i>Orthorrhapha Brachycera and Cyclorrhapha</i>) <i>from Spitsbergen and Bear Island. Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen</i>, 1921.—No. 22

XIII.—On the spiders captured by Mr. C. S. Elton at Spitsbergen and Bear Island in 1921. Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen.—No. 5

XIII.—<i>On the spiders captured by Mr. C. S. Elton at Spitsbergen and Bear Island in</i> 1921. <i>Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen</i>.—No. 5

The Birds of Spitsbergen and Bear Island*

The Birds of Spitsbergen and Bear Island*

The Oxford Expedition to Spitsbergen, 1921

ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. ALTHOUGH the collections made by members of the expedition have not yet been worked out, it is now possible to form some idea of the extent to which our knowledge of the Spitsbergen group has been increased by the Oxford Expedition of 1921. Owing to difficulties caused by industrial unrest both in England and Norway, the original plans had to be considerably modified, and it was agreed to carry out a biological survey of the southern half of Bear Island, with special reference to the ornithology, before proceeding to the west coast of Spitsbergen.

Book Review: Great Bear Island

Book Review: Great Bear Island

Rock Glaciers in Alaska

It is a generally admitted fact among observers of present-day geologic processes in high latitudes, but one upon which too little emphasis has been placed, that processes of weathering and removal of rock waste in sub-arctic regions are different from the controlling processes of degradation in more temperate regions. Among the better-known special agents of erosion active at high altitudes in temperate regions as well as in lower altitudes in sub-arctic regions, is the action of glacial ice. Of the processes not so well understood or appreciated is that of the flow of soils, or solifluction, described for Bear Island of the North Atlantic Ocean by J. G. Andersson.2 Mr. Andersson considers solifluction to be an important agent in the peneplanation of areas in high latitudes, and the process is without question a most important one in many parts of Alaska. Other processes which, according to Daly,3 may be effective in producing an accordance of summits in mountainous regions, accordances which are generally referred to as indicating dissected peneplains, are frost

Bear Island

Bear Island

XLIII.—The Birds of Spitsbergen, as at present determined

I do not think it needful to give, in this Introduction, more than an outline of the voyage to which it refers. ‘The Ibis’ cannot fairly be asked to concern itself with personal adventures, but rather with an account of the birds. We left Tromsö on June 15th, sighted Bear Island about one o'clock on the following day, and on the 17th inst. fell in with light scattered ice in N. lat. 76° 10′. All that day we went through the ice, sighting, towards evening, Horn Mountain and the Spitsbergen cliffs.