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Many explorers and whalers ended their lives in the Arctic cold and were buried there. Permafrost has preserved their burials for centuries. Svalbard has more than 800 known whalers’ graves from the 17th and 18th century.
(Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen, by Stock (1690))

This 1500-year old arrow has a fletching of three half-feathers, which were attached using a combination of tar and string. Feathers are rare finds as they do not survive long outside the ice and are easily swept away by the heavy winds in the high mountains #glacialarchaeology