Climate change is poised to divide Norway’s largest Arctic island into two
Spitsbergen will eventually become two islands, likely between 2055 and 2065 — but sooner if the pace of warming continues to increase.
September 16, 2019
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Retreating glacier ice will eventually open a new strait between the Barents and Greenland Seas through the island of Spitsbergen, the largest in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
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