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Transcript of Where is this place?. SVALBARD The location of Svalbard.
Where is this place?
SVALBARD
The location of Svalbard
Svalbard and the Golden Compass/His Dark Materials
• Svalbard is a region the North of Lyra Belacqua's World. The Armoured Bears have their palace here. Lord Asriel was imprisoned in Svalbard in the palace of the ice bears, under Iofur Raknison.
• Svalbard is also the name of a real location north of the country Norway (which lives in Scandanavia in Europe), and it lies near the North Pole together with a couple of other isles. Its a group of isles itself.
What physical and human features can you observe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ATMVnQF1o
• Longyearbyenhttps://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyKtIK8azAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrsGbOL30o• Polar bear Svalbard
Svalbard factfile Complete the fact-file to investigate the physical and human geography of Svalbard
Task: Svalbard – an extreme environment
• Use the information on the wiki and your own research to completed the table about information on Svalbard as an extreme environment
Physical features
The cold climate gives Svalbard a distinct physical landscape and processes.
• Rock, ice and sea are the main landscape features. • There is no tall vegetation and only lichen above 1100m. • Svalbard is glaciated, 60% of the land is ice covered, and it has small valley
glaciers as well as large outlet glaciers draining ice-caps. • Ground is permanently frozen and impermeable nearly everywhere above
100m altitude. This is called permafrost and varies from 10m to 45m thickness.
• Only the very top layer thaws in summer enabling some plant growth. It causes problems for constructing and heating buildings and explains why some buildings and pipes are on short stilts.
• Glacial landforms include include fjords, glacial valleys, arêtes and nunataks (erosional), outwash plains, alluvial fans and moraines (depositional).
Human features
• Semi permanent population – most people stay up to 7 years for the purposes of mining, tourism and transport.
• Whaling goes on there• Mining for coal and oil extraction• Tourism as a result of the unique landscape• Scientific bases on the islands• Few settlements – Longyearbyen is the capital
The Northern Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjf-SM0CIDs
Aurora borealis from the international space station
http://vimeo.com/27572722Northern lights
The Northern Lights - explanation• Auroras, sometimes called the northern and southern (polar) lights, are
natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the polar regions.
• In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis. The aurora borealis is only visible in the sky from the Northern Hemisphere, with the chance of visibility increasing with proximity to the North Magnetic Pole.
• Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis or the southern polar lights, is only visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, or Australasia. Australis is the Latin word for "of the South."
• Particles from the Sun (smaller than an atom) are captured in the Earth's magnetic field (the same field that makes compass needles point to the north). The captured energy causes the gases of the atmosphere to become excited and this causes the emission of light with different colours.
Svalbard SeedbankThe Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a 'doomsday' seedbank under
construction. It will store as many seeds known to humans as possible to prevent
important agricultural and wild plants from becoming rare or extinct in the event of a global disaster such as global warming, a meteorite strike, nuclear or biological warfare.
There are already over 1400 local seedbanks around the world, but many are in politically unstable or environmentally threatened nations.
1. What seeds would you choose store in the seed bank?2. Are there any plants, landscapes or environments that you would
definitely want protected by storing seeds?3. What plants do you think are most useful to humans now? How
about in the future? 4. Why is Svalbard a good location?
