In the small valley beside the road, you can find mummified shells and whalebones which are 10 000 years old and still smell. The increase and loss of continental-scale ice volume during the Pleistocene left indirect, but nevertheless quite obvious traces in the landscape. The glaciers on Svalbard were well beyond a thousand metres thick during the last ice age, and the weight of the ice pressed the earth crust down by almost two hundred metres. When this ice disappeared, the crust started to pop up again. The result was
Whale bones and shells
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