“…Woodfjorden and its trough constituted one of the main northern gateways for fast flowing ice streams that drained the northwestern sector of these ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum Ottesen et al, 2007). Whereas the Holocene and in part the late Weichselian have been relatively well documented off (south)western Svalbard (Hald et al, 2004;Jernas et al, 2013;Majewski et al, 2009;Rasmussen et al, 2007Rasmussen et al, , 2012; T. L. Rasmussen et al, 2014a;Sarnthein et al, 2003;Skirbekk et al, 2010;Ślubowska-Woldengen et al, 2007;Werner et al, 2011), palaeoceanographic records from northern Svalbard (Chauhan et al, 2014(Chauhan et al, , 2015Koç et al, 2002;Kubischta et al, 2011;Ślubowska et al, 2005) are still scarce (Fig. 1b).…”