Arctic Ice

Arctic Nature & Wildlife Galleries


Moonlit Iceberg taken at midday during the polar night. Ice polished by the wind. N.W. Greenland. 1980
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A seabird flies past the towering ice cliffs of an iceberg. West Greenland.
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An iceberg shaped like a lemon meringue pie, bathed in warm autumn sunshine. Northwest Greenland. 1987
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Grounded iceberg. The grooves are caused by air bubbles eroding the ice. Greenland. 1985
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Iceberg and its mirror reflection in summer waters. Northwest Greenland
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Substantial lumps of ice fall from the front of the Kongsbreen tidewater glacier, Kongsfiord, Spitsbergen.
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Detail of an Iceberg in a calm sea, Scoresbysund Fiord. East Greenland. 2005
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Towering Icebergs float to the sea from the Icefjord. Ilulissat. West Greenland.
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A wedge shaped Iceberg reflected in calm water drifts off the coast of North West Greenland. 1987
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Line of icebergs on the horizon drifting in calm water as the sun sets behind them. NW Greenland. 1987
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View down glacier from the Icecap to iceberg studded sea. Cape York. NW Greenland. 1991
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Low sunlight shines through iceberg ice stranded on a beach at low tide. Greenland
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Frazil ice surrounds grounded icebergs in low autumn light before freeze up. N.W.Greenland 1991
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Recently rolled over iceberg shows ridges formed under water. NW Greenland. 1991
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An iceberg reflected in a pool of meltwater under the midnight sun. N.W Greenland. 1997
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Crevasses in the Greenland Icecap indicate movement. Northwest Greenland. 1991
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Fast moving glacier, Politiken Glacier, flows from the Greenland Icecap to the frozen sea. NW Greenland. 1998
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Climate change, Meltwater pours off an iceberg passing a hole as chains of droplets. Scoresbysund Fiord. East Greenland. 2005
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An Iceberg surrounded by melting sea ice in the summer off the coast of Northwest Greenland. 1997
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Glacial lagoon with its own icebergs on the receding icecap. Beyond it a glacier flows into a fjord. NW. Greenland. 1991
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Icebergs float in a sea filled with broken ice off Greenland. NW Greenland. 1980
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A ribbon of clear blue ice runs through an iceberg and is reflected in the sea. West Greenland
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Thawing slabs of sea ice in summer. blue with icicles. Northwest Greenland. 1980
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Waves and studge ice near the shore at Uelen. Bering Strait, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
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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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Icebergs frozen into the sea ice of Meteorite Bay. Northwest Greenland. 1996
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At -40 degrees Celsius frost smoke rises off the freezing sea at the floe edge near Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. 1990
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The floe edge in winter with newly formed ice flowers. Melville Bay. N.W.Greenland. 1986
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Open water, new ice, and new ice with ice flowers, & Inuk and dog sled in the distance. Melville Bay, Northwest Greenland. (1980)
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Ice flowers on newly formed sea ice in winter. N.W. Greenland. 1986
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'Ice flower' - frozen extrusions of salt formed on new sea ice as salt water freezes. Northwest Greenland. 1980
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Sastrugi (wind carved ridges in snow) near Savissivik. Northwest Greenland. 1998
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Wind clouds forming over melting sea ice in Northwest Greenland. 1997
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Eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) resting at the floe edge near Saunders Island. Northwest Greenland. (1989)
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Pancake ice which forms in the early stages of the sea freezing. NW Greenland. 1991
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An iceberg at the floe edge in winter. Melville Bay. N.W.Greenland. 1986
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