“…In general, over the last decade, Svalbard coastal studies have been concentrated on the coastal zone response to shifts in sediment supply associated with changes in local ice masses and paraglaciation (e.g., Bourriquen et al, ; Mercier & Laffly, ; Sessford, Strzelecki, & Hormes, ; Strzelecki et al, ; Zagórski, ); ephemeric pulses of sediments from snow‐fed streams (Lønne & Nemec, ; Strzelecki, Long, & Lloyd, ); or the controls of coastal permafrost development (Kasprzak et al, ). Recent years had also brought some advances in local rocky coast systems that dominate over coastal landscape in numerous Svalbard fjords (e.g., Kasprzak et al, ; Strzelecki, ; Strzelecki, ; Strzelecki et al, ; Świrad, Migoń, & Strzelecki, ).…”