Polish Polar Station run by the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Science is situated at Polar Bear Bay in Hornsund fjord on West Spitsbergen Island. The station was set up in 1957 by a group of scientists from PAN led by Stanislaw Siedlecki. From the beginning, the station has hosted hundreds of people conducting different researches. One of the members of yearly polar expeditions is the author of the presented photographs – Mateusz Moskalik.

Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, Monte Cassino in Italy, Polish cemeteries in Paris and Lvov – there are many places all over the world where one may found traces of Poland and Poles. Some of them are presented in this gallery. All photographs have been sent to the photographic competition Polish traces all over the globe.