Isfjell og fuglefjell
That would be 'ice-mountains' and 'bird-mountains' literally, the former being the Norwegian word for ice bergs that break off tidewater glaciers like the one behind Bjørn Monro above. He is nursing a shot of Scotch chilled with several thousand year old ice fetched from the waters of the fjord.
These ice ciffs at the glacier terminus are perhaps 50 meters high
Fuglefjell means 'bird mountain', referring to the nesting cliffs that can be found at various locations around the fjord. Here the birds are just white specks on the rocks.
This havhest (sea horse) is in the albatross family, one of a group that stayed and played close to the boat during our time on the fjord. They are fantastic flyers and swooped around the boat, coming in close enough for good pictures.
On the right of this photo you can see a small mine entrance with a smear of tailings underneath.
This is a part of one of the largest nesting areas on Isfjorden. Underneath it there was an old gypsum mine, so here in the arctic we can find coal, which is formed in swamps in hot, moist climates, and gypsum which forms in periodically dry lakes in desert regions!