Glaciogeomorphological, paleobotanical and geochronological investigations have permitted the identification of phases of glacier development on Svalbard during the Holocene. The following stages have been distinguished: Damesmorenen (about 7,800 yeaTS B.P.), Passdalen (4,500–4,000 years B.P.), Grønfjorden (3,000–2,500 years B.P.) and Treskelen (17th‐19th century). The Late Pleistocene‐Early Holocene stages of glacier advance distinguished earlier require more reliable chronological confirmation. An important peculiarity of the Holocene glaciation on Svalbard is that some of the glaciers reached their maximum dimensions at the beginning of the Holocene and others at the end, during the “Little Ice Age.”; This peculiarity of the glaciation of the archipelago during the Holocene has not yet been satisfactorily explained and requires further investigation.