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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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  • POLAR BEAR. 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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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Polar veteran David Rootes takes soil samples for base-line environmental survey of private flights to region.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski expedition member parasails in katabatic winds on vast polar icecap near Ellsworth Mountains, at 80 degrees south latitude.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie stands beside ice sculptures created by British artist Andy Goldsworthy, for whom Gordon was the polar guide.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr.Lis Densmore (MR) builds snow wall below continent's highest summit to protect camp from high polar winds. Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • A twin otter bush plane refuels on Ellsmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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  • Veteran Russian polar explorer, Victor Boyarsky, leads the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition across the vast polar plateau.
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  • Dogsleds from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.  In the distant background is USA's Amundsen-Scott science base.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition cross the vast polar plateau, near the South Pole.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.
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  • Dog teams from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole,
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  • Led by distant Victor Boyarsky, a dogsled from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigates across the vast polar plateau.
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  • POLAR BEAR. Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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  • Keizo Funatsu, Will Steger and Qin Dahe guide their dogsleds across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Mountaineer Michael Graber ascends a satellite peak of the Troll's Castle (bkg.) in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  Behind is the vast polar plateau.
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  • A sentry stands guard for polar bears as shipboard tourists explore Cape Tegethoff on McClintock Island, part of Russia's Arctic Franz Josef Land archipeligo.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alejo Contreras Staeding parasails in katabatic winds on polar icecap near Patriot Hills at 80 degrees south latitude. Three Sails nunataks bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA, South Pole Ski Expedition. Windy camp at 83 degrees south latitude on featureless polar plateau
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  • SPITSBERGEN, Svalbard, Norway. Polar expeditioneer under glacier cliffs at Inglefield Bay on island's east coast.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger looks at a vast horizon beyond the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Victor Boyarsky leads dogsleds of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition through condensing ice crystals on the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.
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  • Mountaineer Michael Graber ascends a satellite peak of the Troll's Castle (bkg.) in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.  Behind is the vast polar plateau.
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  • A Polar Bear drifts on ever-shrinking ice cause by global warming.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Thiel Mountains and wind-carved sastrugi on polar ice cap 300 miles from South Pole.
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  • Nick Wiltsie (MR) runs out of icy polar seas after soaking in hot spring on Deception Island, Antarctica.  The cruise ship Clipper Adventurer is anchored in the background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on first ascent of Mount Simmons in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Vast polar icecap background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. First-ever Antarctic tourist base at Patriot Hills, (80 degrees south) on polar icecap near Ellsworth Mountains. Photo taken in January, 1987, 1st year of operation.
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  • Antarctica. Veteran Polar Pilot, Giles Kershaw, In Cessna 185.  2 Months After This Photo Was Taken In December, 1989, He Was Killed In A Gyrocopter Crash.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer atop Independence Hills in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Dr. Lis Densmore (MR).  Vast polar icecap in background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Nunataks south of Vinson Massif in Ellsworth Mountains. Vast polar plateau in background.
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  • Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. A polar tourist pretends to pull a cruise ship.
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  • A Hercules C-130 unloads on the blue ice runway at Patriot Hills in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica.
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  • Polar explorer Will Steger mushes a dog team across the frozen Arctic Ocean north of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories of Canada.  A long sunset hovers on the horizon as spring gradually approaches.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Polar Logistics C-130 Hercules plane taxis on bare ice glacier at Blue One expedition base.
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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, RUSSIA. Helicopter takes off from Russian nuclear icebreaker "Yamal" near Cape Tegethoff in this polar archipeligo in Arctic Ocean.
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  • Polar Bear walks 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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  • The northern Ellsworth Mountains rise above Antarctica's vast polar plateau.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Hikers on polar icecap below Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Polar explorers work together to cross a "lead" on the frozen Arctic Ocean.
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  • Polar bear and sled dog tracks.
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  • Expedition Skiers Reinhold & Hubert Messner ski on frozen Arctic Ocean by Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, at beginning of attempted polar crossing.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land.  Shadow of Rakekniven spire creeps across polar icecap north of the Filchner Mountains.
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  • Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.	A polar explorer takes a break, encircled by a vast, bare ice glacier.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  British polar veterans David Rootes & Jonathan Walton use GPS to map potential bare ice runways in aerial survey of Queen Maud Land.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Fenris Mts., including (L to R) Ulvetanna, Kinntanna & Holtanna, rise above polar icecap.
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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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  • FRANZ JOSEF LAND, RUSSIA. Sea stacks by Arctic Ocean at Cape Tegethoff in this polar archipeligo.
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  • Polar Bear 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.
    NP 1945.jpg
  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
    NP 1936.jpg
  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
    NP 1925.jpg
  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
    NP 1922.jpg
  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
    NP 1913.jpg
  • A polar guide steers his raft below towering seracs of a glacier that is calving into the Southern Atlantic Ocean in Paradise Bay, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Southern tip of Ellsworth Mts. fades into vast polar icecap at 80 degrees south latitude. Three Sails Nunataks bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter airplane shadow crosses vast polar icecap near South Pole, featureless except for wind-carved sastrugi.
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  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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  • A survey team travelling in a Twin Otter ski plane scouts for a bare-ice landing strip for wheeled C-130 aircraft at a site that will later be named "Blue One,"  near the Fenris Mountains in Queen Maud Land.
    QM 1946.jpg
  • An aging DC-4 lands on the blue ice runway at Patriot Hills in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica.
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  • King penguins breed on subantarctic islands between 45 and 55°S, at the northern reaches of Antarctica, as well as Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, and other temperate islands of the region.  Their total population is estimated to be more than 2 million pairs and is increasing.  Here, more than 100,000 of them nest in at Salisbury Plain on South Georgia Island in  Antarctica. King penguin colonies are continuously occupied year-round with both adult birds and chicks.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition (Queen Maud Mountains region of Trans-Antarctic Mts.), Climbers on south ridge on 10,300' Mt. Vaughan.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a Nenet woman and her baby wait outside a store in Snopa village.  The Nenet are a mongoloid ethnicity  and are the primary reindeer herders of northern Russia (though, unlike the local Komi people, none herd reindeer nomadically in this region).
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  • A polar-fitted sailboat anchors by glaciers and mountains on Wiencke Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • A polar-fitted sailboat anchors by glaciers and mountains on Wiencke Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a trans-polar jet flies over a chum (tepee) of the vanishing Komi reindeer herding people.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Chuprov, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder,  repairs an aging Russian snowmobile the group uses for finding and herding their animals after nightly grazing in the wild.  Most men in the group have high mechanical skills after serving their mandatory two years in the military.  Ironically, the annual top prize for a regional reindeer-sled race is a snowmobile!
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder struggles to start an aging Russian snowmobile used by journalists covering their migration. Most men in the group have high mechanical skills after serving their mandatory two years in the military.  Ironically, the annual top prize for a regional reindeer-sled race is a snowmobile!
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  • Modern biplanes park at a regional airport in the northern Russian port of Arkhangel'sk, near the Dvinskay Gulf of the White Sea, leading to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • A ski mountaineer takes pictures from the Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.  Behind is a summit sometimes called "Wiltsie's Peak."
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  • Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. A climber atop Mount Shinn, third highest peak on the continent.
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  • Tourist cruise in a zodiak raft under towering glacial seracs that calve into Paradise Bay, Antarctica.
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  • An iceberg floats below a glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
    AC 1310.jpg
  • An iceberg floats in the Peltier Channel below the Fief Range on Wiencke Island, Antarctica.
    AC 1118.jpg
  • The sun rises over Anvers Island and the Neumeyer Channel, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
    AC 0866.jpg
  • Midnight sun creeps across a mountain range on Norway's Spitsbergen Island, only 600 miles from the North Pole.
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  • The Argentine supply ship Bahia Paraiso (which sank in 1987) rests at anchor near Esperanza Base at Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Brabant Island rises behind the Gerlache Strait and Calley Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula.  Image taken from summit of Mount Berry.
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  • Icebergs float near the Loubet Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • The sun rises over Anvers Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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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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  • King Penguins at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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  • A King Penguin chick called an "Oakum Boy" stands in a rookery at Gold Harbor, South Georgia, Antarctica.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA, Mike Sharp navigates across featureless snow with sextant readings off sun while guiding South Pole Ski Expedition in 1988.
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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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  • 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, 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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  • 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, men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders eat and drink in their chum (tepee), waiting for the calving season to begin. Left to right:  Alexei Semyashkin , Alexei Vauchesky, Arthum Khantazeski, and Fyodor “Fedya” Vanutá (who is actually Nenet, not Komi, and unrelated to anyone else).
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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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  • 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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