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Eiscat Svalbard Radar dishes just above Mine 7 in Adventdalen. Spitsbergen.

SvalSat, Svalbard Satellite Station, situated on a plateau near Longyearbyen. Spitsbergen, Norway.

Ainana, an elderly Yupik Eskimo woman speaks into a mobile phone, held by Edward Zdor, being used during a conference with native Eskimos in Alaska. Provideniya, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010

An Inuit hunter using an Iridium satellite phone on the Melville Peninsula. Nunavut, Canada. 1999

A parabolic antenna outside the Inuit community of Savissivik. N.W. Greenland. Northwest. 1996

Satellite dishes bring TV, phones and the internet to the Inuit community of Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

A Khanty woman using a mobile phone in Nadym. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia

Valya, a Nenets woman, using a mobile phone. Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia.

A Nenets spectator uses his mobile phone to photograph a reindeer race at a herders festival in the Yamal. Western Siberia, Russia

A Tundra Nenets woman voting in the Russian Presidential elections at her camp. Gydan Peninsula, W.Siberia, Russia. 2000

Clifford Weyiouanna checks the location of his reindeer herd on his computer. 5 of his reindeer have satellite collars. Shishmaref. Alaska. 2003

Niaqutsiaq, chats to other Inuit hunters on the radio from his summer camp. Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Dishes at Eiscat Auroral Research Centre in the Polar night. Tromso. Norway. 1990

Eiscat Radio Telescope in Adventdalen, Svalbard, used to study the Aurora.

DEW Line Station at Point Barrow. North Slope. Alaska. 1997

The Eiscat satellite dish by the runway at Ny Alesund. Spitsbergen.

The Eiscat satellite dish by the runway at Ny Alesund. Spitsbergen.

The roof of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault popularly known as the Doomsday Vault, located just above the airport. Longyearbyen. Svalbard

First Air Jet with Arcticphoto's Polar Bear on the tail. Iqaluit. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

A sign at Greenland's main international airport at Kangerlussuaq (Sondre Stromfjord). W. Greenland. 1996

Dog sleds being used to carry supplies from a Cessna Caravan plane. Savissivik - N.W. Greenland. 1996

Reindeer are startled when a MI-8 helicopter lands near them at Numto. Khanty Mansiysk, W.Siberia, Russia. 2000

Villagers gather around an MI-8 helicopter at Numto in Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia. 2000

A Dash-8 Aircraft on final approach to land at the Inuit community of Pangnirtung. Nunavut, Canada. 2008

Native walrus ivory carving 'News in the Tundra' (1987) by Edward Tatchenko. Uelen, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002

Saami reindeer herder, Nils Peder Gaup, chats on his mobile phone while ice fishing for Arctic Char on a lake near his reindeers' winter pastures. Kautokeino, Finnmark, North Norway. 2007

Trucks carrying large sections of gas pipe on a winter road near the Yurharovo gas field. Noviy Urengoi, Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia.

An Ural truck on a winter road in the Vanya Valley, Kolyma Mountain Range. Evensk. Magadan Region, Eastern Siberia, Russia. 2006

Vezdekhods (track vehicle) travelling across tundra on a winter road near Tiksi. Northern Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. 2001

Supply trucks travelling on a winter road along the frozen River Ob near Panaevsk.Yamal Peninsula. Western Siberia, Russia.

A stop sign in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, in both English and Inuktitut syllabics. Nunavut, Canada. 2002

The Inuit Broadcasting Corp. T.V. Studio at Iqaluit. Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Nils Peder Gaup, a Saami reindeer herder, uses his mobile phone to communicate with the other herders while out checking the reindeer with his wife, Inge Ellen. Kautokeino, Finnmark, North Norway. 2007

Inuit children learning to use a computer at school in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Nenets children learning basic computer programming at the school in Panaevsk. Yamal, W.Siberia, Russia.

Inuit pupil Ulipika Irngaut engrossed in her computer studies in school. Igloolik. Nunavut, Canada. Model released. 2008