ABSTRACT
The Lappmarken archive appeared in a dark attic in the old geophysics building at the University of Bergen in 2012 during a search for an entirely different archive altogether. A pile of 50 glass plate negatives laid exposed on a shelf, while the rest of the archive materialised in a crumbled dusty cardboard box on the floor. The expedition’s main purpose was to study the biological significance of snow in an area of Arctic Norway and Sweden, or more precisely, the region of Troms, Norway and Torne Lappmark in the Kiruna region of Sweden. It is quite obvious what a multiplicity of wonderful shapes and figures of snow can be found and examined everywhere, principally in the regions of the North and those lands which lie alongside them; indeed the farther one goes towards the Arctic Pole, the more the falling snows are seen to vary in their quantity and quality.
