4 results for projects related to 'harbours'

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Project Title: Breiðafjörður Islands
Permalink: https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=108
Country: Iceland
Description: The islands of Breiðafjörður are unique, geographically bounded spaces, but often maintained, organized and owned from the mainland. Living on islands was a balance between surviving and living through farming and fishing. However, the communication ...[More]
 
Project Title: Harbours of the North Atlantic AD 800-1300
Harbours of the North Atlantic (AD 800-1300) (HaNoA)
Permalink: https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=172
Country: Faroe Islands
Description: The core aims of the project are: to investigate possible port facilities and their functions by studying medieval written sources, to examine the topography of ports in relation to navigational aids (e.g. landmarks), ballast fields, the seabed a...[More]
Keywords: harbours,Viking,Medieval,trade
 
Project Title: Modelling changes in the coastal geomorphology of Unst, Shetland and the implications for understanding High to Late Medieval harbour changes in the Scandinavian North Atlantic
Permalink: https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=222
Country: Scotland
Region: Unst, Shetland Islands
Description: This sub-project is part of the SP5 Geomorphology section of the HaNoA project. The geomorphological setting of Norse harbours in the Atlantic is variable, with contrasting landform stability over short, medium and long time scales. Here we asses...[More]
Keywords: Geormorphology, Unst, Shetland, Coastal, Harbour, Landing site, Norse, Viking, Erosion, Beach,
 
Project Title: Survey of medieval harbours at Shetland
Permalink: https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=156
Country: Scotland
Region: Shetland
Keywords: Shetland, medieval, trading site