Texas Bar, Svalbard

Texas Bar is a trapper hut in Liefdefjord, built in 1927 by Hilmar Nøis and Martin Petterson Nøis. Several members of the Nøis family vom Vesterålen in Norway spent parts of their lives as trappers in Spitsbergen, and some of them became famous later. In the late 1920s, the chose the Woodfjord-Liefdefjord area as their hunting territory and built a couple of huts. Some well-known ones that still exist are the old one in Mushamna and the one at Gråhuken, also known as the “Ritter-hut”.