LongyearbreenLongyearbreen is a small valley glacier easily acessible by foot from Longyerbyen | |||
 View from Longyeardalen towards the ice-cored terminal moraine of Longyearbreen (MH). |  Cornices along the horizon and avalanche deposits in the corrie at the head of Longyearbreen (JA). |  Looking back towards Longyearbyen from the terminal moraine of Longyearbreen. Note tips from abandoned coal mines in the centre (JA). |  Meltwater pond and angular debris on the terminal moraine of Longyearbreen. Hiortfjellet (923m) in the background (MH). |
 Longyearbreen's terminal moraine carries many blocks which contain beautiful fossils of vascular plants (JA). |  Coloured fossil leaves found on the terminal moraine of Longyearbreen (JA). |  Leaf imprint on a sandstone, found on the terminal moraine of Longyearbreen (JA). |  A guided tour in the ablation area of Longyearbreen. Considerable amounts of superimposed ice still remains after a late spring (12th July, 2009; JA). |
 The authors pose on some angular supraglacial debris (J. Alean on the left, M. Hambrey on the right; photo 12th July, 2009, Duncan Quincey). | |||