Video: Huge waterfalls and snow-white glaciers in the Svalbard nature reserve (Norway)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Svalbard - an amazing place on earth, where the arctic cold has formed a unique flora and fauna, and huge glaciers and crystal waterfalls fascinate anyone who manages to visit here. The name of this archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean, literally means "cold shores". In these endless expanses, such tranquility reigns that, just look, the Snow Queen's sleigh drawn by reindeer will sweep by, or you will stumble upon young Kai, stubbornly laying out the cherished word from the fragments.
Svalbard is the northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway, and the harsh climate fully confirms this. It is located about halfway from mainland Norway to the North Pole. The diversity of flora and fauna here is due to the fact that Svalbard is washed by the warm Gulf Stream, which softens the climate.
The area of the reserve is about 62 thousand square meters. km, almost 60% of it is covered with glaciers, most of which descend to the sea. As a result of melting ice and snow, huge waterfalls are formed, which fall into the sea directly from the glaciers. The spectacle is incredible in its strength and beauty! A real "paradise" of Svalda - vast areas of the tundra in the interior of the island, where snow-white valleys give way to a colorful floral blanket.
Seven national parks are located on two thirds of the archipelago's territory, the rest of Svalbord is managed by twenty-three nature reserves, which allows you to control the preservation of this amazing natural monument. There is really something to protect on the archipelago: not only seabirds find food here, but also polar bears, deer, arctic foxes, seals, walruses also live in the coastal waters, even killer whales and whales swim here at the end of summer.
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