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The floe edge at sunset with different ages of ice, grease ice and iceberg. Melville Bay. N.W. Greenland. 1986
QQ.0622-35		 Autumn sunset over grease ice in Northwest Greenland. 1987
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Nilas, new sea ice forming, still translucent, plastic and with sheets overlapping. Northwest Greenland. 1996
QQ.0403-15		 Finger rafting in new sea ice, nilas, as sheets run into each other. Northwest Greenland. 1996
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Grease ice. Early formation of sea ice. Northwest Greenland. 1987
QQ.0707-27		 Grease ice and nilas, newly formed sea ice, off Danskoya, north of Spitsbergen
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At sunset, an Inuit drives his boat through newly formed sea ice in Inglefield Bay. Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland. 2008
QQ.2805-07		 Inuit hunter works to get his boat through the pancake ice at freeze-up. Moriussaq. North West Greenland. 1987
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Autumn sunset over grease ice in Northwest Greenland. 1987
QQ.0707-29		 Bird stands on grease ice at freeze-up. North Greenland. 1987
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Jens, an Inuit hunter, returns to the village of Moriussaq with a seal over the side of his boat after an autumn day's hunting. Moriussaq. Northwest Greenland. (1987)
QQ.0718-14		 Sun sets for the winter over grease ice and icebergs. Northwest Greenland. 1987
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Adult Polar bear walking through grease ice on freezing sea water. Hudson Bay, Canada
CC.0940-26		 Icebergs with new sea ice forming around them in the autumn. North West Greenland. 1991
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Adult Polar bear walking through grease ice on freezing sea water. Hudson Bay, Canada
CC.0947-12		 Adult Polar bear walking through grease ice on freezing sea water. Hudson Bay, Canada
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Polar Bear checks the grease ice near the coast line of the Hudson Bay watching his reflection . Canada.
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