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Maps and webcams

Maps

  • TopoSvalbard – A topographical map of Svalbard with place names, updated glacial fronts from satellite imaging and overview of nature conservation areas.
  • Svalbardkartet – an interactive themed atlas of Svalbard supplemented with a rich dataset of environmental data layered on top of a detailed topographic base-map. Svalbardkartet also provides information about instruments, installations and field sites in Ny-Ålesund in the layer Ny-Ålesund Research (Forskning Ny-Ålesund) – commonly known as Ny-Ålesund GIS. All information in Svalbardkartet is open to all.
  • Offline maps of Svalbard (including an offline geological map of Svalbard) that works on mobile, tablet and PC. By the Norwegian Polar Institute.
  • Online and printed maps of Svalbard and Ny-Ålesund that can be used when planning and conducting field work in Ny-Ålesund (by the Norwegian Polar Institute)
  • Ice charts – The ice charts are produced by the Norwegian Ice Service as part of their operational responsibility for European waters and in addition as a collaboration for Antarctic waters.
  • Weather maps by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
  • Mapillary – street-level data from the research station. The software can be used free of charge, and a logged in user gets access to street views from Ny-Ålesund.
  • InSAR map – showing ground movement on Svalbard. By NORCE, the geological survey of Norway and the Norwegian Space Agency.

This animation takes you from Europe to Svalbard, past Kvadehuken and in Kongsfjorden towards Ny-Ålesund with a swing over the Zeppelin Mountain.

Animation by Harald Faste Aas (NPI)

Ny-Ålesund GIS system

Ny-Ålesund has its own GIS system containing information about research instruments, installations and field sites in and around Ny-Ålesund. Currently, the database contains more than 650 historic and current objects. This information is available in Svalbardkartet under the Research Ny-Ålesund layer. A user guidline is available here. See “Monitoring” for an interactive tool.

The system is maintained by NPI, contact person is the research coordinator in Ny-Ålesund at research.nya@npolar.no.

Web cameras

There are several webcams in operation in Ny-Ålesund:

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