Arctic Landscapes

Arctic Nature & Wildlife Galleries

Dramatic view of The Cathedral by moonlight. Ø Fjord Scoresbysund. East Greenland.
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Clouds roll over a small mountain range in a glacier Spitsbergen
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Icebergs and the dramatic scenery of Renland and Røde Fiord. Scoresbysund. East Greenland. 2005
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Little Auks / Dovekies fly in front of the Annanbreen Glacier on Amsterdam Island Spitsbergen
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Dramatic rock formation on the North coast of Inglefield Bay in Northwest Greenland. (1991)
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Winter sunset in the taiga at minus 57 degrees Celsius near Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Republic of Sakha, Russia. (1999)
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Fogbow over the thawing sea ice in the summer. Chukchi Sea / Arctic Ocean. Siberia. 1997
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Moss Campion growing on a rocky ledge in Adventdalen, summer in Spitsbergen
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Aerial view of the Eskimo Village of Shishmaref which is threatened by coastal erosion.Seward Peninsula, Alaska. 2003
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Purple Saxifrage is the first plant to flower amongst the Summer Tundra meltpools. N.W. Greenland. 1989
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Sastrugi etched in the snow covered winter tundra near Lavrentiya. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002
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Small clumps of larch trees surviving on the frozen tundra near George River, Northern Quebec, Canada
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White clouds over Cotton Grass. Lake Hazen. Ellesmere Nat. Park Res. Nunavut, Canada. 1994
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Kenamu river flows through boreal forest shortly before freeze up. Labrador, Canada. 1997
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The floe edge in winter with newly formed ice flowers. Melville Bay. N.W.Greenland. 1986
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The floe edge at sunset with different ages of ice, grease ice and iceberg. Melville Bay. N.W. Greenland. 1986
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Eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) resting at the floe edge near Saunders Island. Northwest Greenland. (1989)
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A small river winds its way through snow covered boreal forest. Labrador, Canada. 1997
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Abstract pattern of the sandbar and lagoon at the mouth of the Dombrava River. Hurry Inlet. East Greenland. 2005
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Footprints in the sand in Eleonora Bay, Musk oxen, arctic fox and Glaucous Gull. Kejser Franz Joseph Fiord. North-east Greenland National Park. 2005
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A small piece of glacial ice frozen into sea ice on the coast of Northwest Greenland. 1980
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Moonrise over the church in the Finnmark town of Kautokeino in the Polar night. Northern Norway. 1990
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Dramatic Asperatus cloud formation as a storm brews at dawn over Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 2008
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Reindeer migrate through the Kildal Valley to summer pastures. Travel is easier at night. Finnmark, N.Norway. 1985
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Aerial view of taiga (boreal forest) with a newly frozen river in the autumn. Yamal, western Siberia, Russia.
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Snow covered larch trees in winter sunshine. Boreal Forest. Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Republic of Sakha, Russia. (1999)
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Dusk on a winter's day in the forest on Shaman Mountain near Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Republic of Sakha, Russia. (1999)
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Reindeer at their winter pastures in the Verkhoyansk range of mountains. Yakutia, Republic of Sakha, Russia. (1999)
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A rainbow over a Khanty reindeer herders' camp in the Polar Ural Mountains. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia
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Low hanging stratus clouds obscure the mountain tops in Ø Fjord, Scoresbysund. East Greenland.
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The distinctive Grundvigskirken seen from Jyttehavn, Scoresbysund. East Greenland.
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Altocumulus and stratus clouds low around the mountains in Scoresbysund Fiord. East Greenland.
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Glaciers have smoothed striped strata rock from the Cambrian and late pre-Cambrian in Segelsällskapets Fjord, North-East Greenland National Park.
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Autumn mists and icebergs. Stor Ø, Rødefjord, Scoresbysund. East Greenland.
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Tundra, Aulavik National Park, patterned ground and tundra ponds. Northern Banks Island, NWT, Arctic Canada
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Subadult polar bear, Ursus maritimus, hunting for seals on the melting pack ice, Svalbard Archipelago, Arctic Norway
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