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The Polish Polar Station on the northern coast of the Hornsund fiord on the Spitsbergen island, Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, was established in the framework of the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958, to carry out research in a variety of fields. In 1978/79 the station was thoroughly rebuilt and adapted for year-round work. Continuous operation of the Hornsund Seismological Station HSP, located therein, also started at that time. The research projects carried out at the station were based on standard recordings of tectonic earthquakes and monitoring of seismic activity of the Hans Glacier (located few kilometers away of the seismometer array) based on recording of icevibrations. The HSP station is a member of the world network of seismological stations. In this chapter we outline a brief history of the Polish Polar Station, with special emphasis on the Hornsund Seismological Station.
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The institutions involved: the Institute of Geophysics PAS, University of Silesia, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, University of Wrocław, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, University of Gdańsk, AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Research Center in Cracow of the Institute of Geological Sciences PAS.
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Górski, M. (2014). Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Spitsbergen. In: Seismic Events in Glaciers. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31851-1_2
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