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Arctic 131 images Created 14 Jun 2021

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  • An Inuit hunter waits for seals at the ice floe edge north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) runs across frozen Baffin Bay, north of Arctic Circle.
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  • POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus) on small ice floe in Arctic Ocean north of Franz Josef Land, Russia. With global warming reducing polar ice, these animals are becoming endangered.
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  • NUNAVUT, CANADA. Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) grazes on arctic poppies (Papaver radicatum) near Eureka, on Ellesmere Island.
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  • Russian school children in arctic village of Nizhnyaya Pesha pose on bikes outside family home.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herders grill reindeer meat on a stick over coals of an outdoor campfire.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Stass Pan‛kov rests on a stick as he waits for the reindeer herd to arrive to pull his sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, members of the last nomadic Komi clan herd reindeer into a temporary pen where they can select animals to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder holds up netting of temporary pen against crush of reindeer.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 72-year old nomadic reindeer herder Marie Vaucheskaya, of the Komi clan, holds up a temporary pen.
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  • During a rare time to relax north of the Arctic Circle in Russia,  the women of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan gather for tea and biscuits in Marie Terentéva’s chum.  Left to Right:  Marie and Katerina Vaucheskaya (ages 72 & 38), Rema Chuprova (70+) & Marie Terentéva (77).
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi reindeer-herding clan travels across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog that makes navigation difficult.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, surveys the vast, frozen tundra as his reindeer rest from wallowing through deep, wet spring snow.
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  • As rapidly-approaching spring melts snow on the arctic Russian tundra, Alexei Semyashkin, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  charges with his team through a pool atop the permafrost.  Within weeks these pools will generate enough mosquitoes to drive both men and reindeer nearly insane, at which point they will migrate again to drier mountains further north.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches – and sometimes directs – the herd movement as cows begin to calve.  The group’s objective is to keep them in one place during this crucial period, before mosquitoes force both people and caribou to move to higher ground in nearby mountains.
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  • After a cold, rainy night on the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a group of nomadic Komi reindeer herders warm up and eat a quick breakfast of bread and grilled reindeer meat in a grass-cutter’s hut near Snopa village.  Left to right:  Arthum Khantazeski, Alexei Semyashkin, Vasily Chuprov, and Alexei Vauchesky.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.  Left to right: Vasily Terentév, Arthum Khantazeski, Vasily Chuprov, Alexei Semyashkin, and Alexei Vauchesky.
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  • Every few years the nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan selects a new leader.  In 2006 it was Vasily Terentév, Marie Terenteva's younger son.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, navigates his sled across a half-melted tundra bog as he steers the herd towards its next destination.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, seemingly infinite ponds and bogs appear as the tundra melts free from its winter blanket of snow.  By June, this becomes both impassible and a breeding ground for so many mosquitoes that neither people nor reindeer can stay there.
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  • Caribou race across frozen Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories.
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  • "Chicago" a sled dog, snarls at one of his team mates while crossing the Arctic Ocean with explorer Will Steger.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger mushes across the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Canada, aglow in the midnight sun.
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  • Despite winter cold, a Russian airport worker tends a plane on Severnaya Zemlya, an archipeligo far north of Siberia.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Will Steger's sled dogs run through new snow near North Pole on Arctic Ocean, during 1995 expedition from Russia to Canada.
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  • Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.	Expedition skiers climb Nemtinov Peak above the Tunabreen Glacier.
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  • Jay Jensen skis on the frozen Arctic Ocean fjord below ice cliffs of the Nordenskjold Glacier on Spitsbergen Island, Norway.
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  • Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway.	An expedition skier crosses sastrugi on frozen Billefjord.
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  • SPITSBERGEN, Svalbard, Norway. Polar expeditioneer under glacier cliffs at Inglefield Bay on island's east coast.
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  • A power plant burns locally-mined coal in Longyearbyen, Norway's northmost town.
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  • Midnight sun creeps across a mountain range on Norway's Spitsbergen Island, only 600 miles from the North Pole.
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  • Midnight sun over melting pack ice in Isfjorden ("Ice Fjord").
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, CANADA. Alex Lowe (MR) & iceberg on frozen Baffin Bay, near Clyde River in Nunavut.
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Mount Asgard in Auyuittuq National Park.
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  • CANADA, NUNAVUT TERRITORY. Arctic fox in summer coat, near Eureka, on Ellesmere Island.
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  • A reindeer feeds on lichens in tundra near Snopa, Russia, a tiny hamlet near the Arctic Ocean shores  of the Barents Sea, about 500 miles northeast of Arkhangelsk.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  walks in front of a rime-coated net that is carried from camp to camp as a temporary reindeer pen.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder harnesses domesticated animals to his sled in order to move camp from one grazing area to the next.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, drags a string of reluctant reindeer from a temporary pen to pull his mother’s sleds.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a matriarch of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, serves dinner to her son Vasily  in the family's chum (tepee).
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  • A statue of Vladamir Lenin stands in front of an office building in the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Arctic Ocean.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT.  Martin Hignell & Takano Takako (MR) react as their sled & dogs break thru hidden Arctic Ocean "lead."
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  • RUSSIA, Arctic. Meteorologist at Golomianiyy Weather Station, Severnaya Zemlya, an archipeligo north of Siberia.
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  • Windblown rime and minus 40 degree temperatures envelop Russia's Golomianiyy Weather Station  on Severnaya Zemlya archipeligo, one of the northmost manned outposts in the world
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  • INTL.ARCTIC PROJECT, Will Steger's dog team pulls sled over a pressure ridge on frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • Inuit hunter Jayko Apak waits for seals on ice floe, Baffin Island, Nunavut.
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  • Duujii, returning from helping other nomads cross Utreg Pass, carries a juniper branch as part of a spiritual ritual in Darhad Valley, Mongolia.
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  • Reinhold & Hubert Messner test sleds amidst pressure ridges before attempting to cross the Arctic Ocean from Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, to Canada, via the North Pole. Background mist rises from open water leads. Temperature is about minus 35 degrees F.
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  • A Wheeled DC-4 airplane taxis on frozen Lake Hazen.
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  • The United States Range rises in Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve.
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  • Midnight sun skims the horizon over icebergs floating in the Arctic Ocean, north of Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.
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  • Barrels litter an abandoned gulag mine in extreme northern Russia.
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  • TAYMYR PENINSULA, RUSSIA. Helicopter lands beside Arctic Ocean near northernmost point of continental Asia.
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  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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  • Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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  • POLAR BEAR. Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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  • ARCTIC OCEAN.  King Neptune party aboard Russian icebreaker "Yamal", en route to North Pole.
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  • Russian helicopter carries tourists for "flight-seeing" tour at North Pole, under rainbow from airborne ice crystals over Arctic Ocean.
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  • A Nuclear-powered Russian icebreaker "Yamal" unloads tourists at the North Pole.
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  • ARCTIC OCEAN. Tourists join hands around North Pole after cruise on Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal.
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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, Russia. Seal skull at Cape Fiume on Champa Island in this Arctic Ocean archipeligo.
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  • A helicopter ferries tourists past twin rock spires that dominate Cape Tegethoff on Hall Island, part of Russia's Franz Josef Land archipeligo, the northermost islands of Europe.
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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, RUSSIA. Helicopter pilot Marko Ruzhin Flies near Cape Tegethoff, enroute to the nuclear-powered icebreaker, Yamal.        (Arctic Ocean.)
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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, RUSSIA.  Shoreline of Bell Island & glacier on Mabel Island (bkg) in this Arctic Ocean archipeligo.
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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, RUSSIA. Sunset over Arctic Ocean & Cape Grant on George Island in this polar archipeligo.
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  • ARCTIC OCEAN. Kittiwakes soar over Barents Sea near Franz Josef Land at sunset.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Vauchesky, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, bides time on a sled as he spends two weeks on the tundra, without a tent, watching the herd.
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  • A sunset glows over a taiga forest, where spruce and birch grow by streams that wander across the tundra of far northern Russia.
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  • As a Komi reindeer herding clan prepares to move, they strip a canvas cover off a chum, exposing the warm reindeer skin lining below.  Piece by piece, everything will be loaded onto reindeer-driven sleds and driven across the tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Komi reindeer herder Marie Terentéva, a nomad,  disassembles spruce poles that hold up her chum, while others work on other chums.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder displays his knife scabbard that hangs from a traditional decorated belt.  Behind him, a woman stands in a malitsa robe and reindeer skin mukluks.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, nomadic Komi reindeer herder Piotr Terentév awaits arrival of the reindeer to migrate to a new camp.  His clothing and goggles come from his time performing mandatory  Russian military service.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses vast frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, near Nizhnyaya Pesha, Russia.
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  • A reindeer caravan herded by the last nomadic Komi clan crosses the tundra near Nizhnyaya  Pesha, in the Russian Arctic.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, men in the the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan slow down sleds to keep them from running over reindeer as they descend into a stream bed.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, a member of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan, relaxes by the wood stove in her cozy chum (tepee), which is much warmer than sub-freezing temperatures outside.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, 77-year old Marie Terentéva, wears a reindeer-skin lined malitsa robe to keep her warm as she waits to herd reindeer into the pen. She is one of the matriarchs of the last nomadic Komi reindeer herding clan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer crush together in panic and climb atop each other in a temporary pen as nomadic Komi reindeer herders capture some of them to pull their sleds.
    RUe 070416-101.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer herded by a nomadic Komi clan charge across the tundra through heavy whiteout fog.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Piotr Terentév, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, fishes with primitive gear through a hole chopped in a frozen stream.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, domesticated reindeer charge across an interface of tundra and taiga forest near Snopa village, herded by a nomadic Komi clan.
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  • In Snopa village, north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Komi man stands beside his draft horse.
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  • The Aurora Borealis glows over spruce trees and a candle-lit tent. Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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  • John Stetson praises dog after long day of mushing on Great Slave Lake, NWT, Canada.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Ulrik Vedel checks for breath after performing CPR on dog that strangled falling into lead. (MR)
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT, Will Steger updates journal in camp on frozen Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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  • Tourists admire the massive grand entrance to the Winter Palace of the Czars in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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  • INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC PROJECT. Ulrik Vedel in -40 degree temperatures at Cape Arkticheskiy, Severnaya Zemlya archipeligo, Russia.
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