The Norwegian Polar Institute is Norway's main producer of topographical and geological maps in Norwegian polar regions and is responsible for the topographic mapping of Svalbard, Jan Mayen in the north and Bouvetøya and the Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic. We publish both digital and printed maps.

Topographic

TopoSvalbard is a topographical map portal for Svalbard. It shows detailed topography and place names in addition to aerial photos and 3D view.

Find and order printed topograhical maps in the store.

Geodata offers a selection of map service and basemap datasets.

You can find all Norwegian place names in the Arctic and the Antarctic are in an open database.

More about polar place names

Find maps in the map archive.

The aerial image archive consists of about 57 000 images from Spitzbergen, Greenland and The Antarctic, dating back to 1932. Images may be orded.

TopoJanMayen is topographical map portal for Jan Mayen. it shows detailed topography and place names.

Thematic

Svalbardkartet is an interactive themed atlas of Svalbard supplemented with a rich dataset of environmental data layered on top of a detailed topographical base-map.

Barentsportal is a thematic map of the Barents region.

Quantarctica is a collection of Antarctic geographical datasets which works with the free, cross-platform, open-source software QGIS.

Geological

GeoSvalbard is a new mobile friendly viewer for geological maps of Svalbard. It shows the most detailed main map series as well as other maps and data sets, such as our sample archive.

 

Geological map and other thematic data from Svalbard.

 

Find and order printed geological maps in the shop