Deltaneset

This photo was taken at Deltaneset in the Icefiord, 13. October 1997.

Two men on a field trip late in the autumn. Our task was to obtain data for the projects "Environmental Studies of Glaucous Gulls" and "Ecophysiology of the Arctic fox". We did taxonomy on sea birds in the Icefiord and killed off Fulmar, Ptarmigan and Brünnich's Guillemot providing bait in "living-traps" for Arctic fox.

In Svalbard the polar night lasts from 26. October to 15. February, and by mid-October the days rapidly grow shorter. As this photo was taken we had a little more than four hours of daylight. In the background you may see The Temple at Bünzow Land.