The LASHIPA project (Large Scale Historical Industrial exploitation of Polar Areas) was an endorsed and financed research project within the International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY), with participants from the Netherlands, Sweden, USA, Great Britain, Norway and Russia.
It was multidisciplinary, with the emphasis on disciplines as historical archaeology and industrial archaeology. The aim of the project is to explain the development of industry in the polar areas from the 17th century until today and to analyse the natural and geopolitical consequences of that development.
Principal investigator
Dag Avango
KTH Royal Institute of Technology