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Spitsbergen, Norway

Voyages to the High Arctic, in 2012 and 2014
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Bearded seal, with a friendly smile
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Bearded seal, with a friendly smile

  • The stare-down... don't be the first to blink!
  • Contemplating the next move ("How do I lure these people out of the ship?")
  • Strength and Beauty
  • Polar bears use their tongues to help them pick up scents. And to make fun of photographers.
  • The edge of the Austfonna ice cap, on Nordaustlandet island in Svalbard
  • Guillemot colony
  • King Eider (male, female, and juvenile)
  • Bearded seal
  • Bearded seal, with a friendly smile
  • Northern Fulmar, admiring his reflection
  • Kittiwake
  • Puffin
  • Puffins
  • "Spitsbergen" means jagged peak, a very appropriate name
  • Spitsbergen coast
  • Walrus on an ice floe
  • Our expedition ship, the M/S Stockholm
  • Pushing through the ice<br /> Honourable mention, 2012 CPC Elevate Worldwide WOW photo contest
  • An old iceberg, grounded on the sea bed
  • Barentsburg, an old Russian coal mining settlement on Spitsbergen
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