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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.
    NP 1990.jpg
  • Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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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 navigate across the vast polar plateau near the South Pole.
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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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  • 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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  • Led by distant Victor Boyarsky, a dogsled from the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition navigates across the vast polar plateau.
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  • Snowmobile-bourne tourists watch a polar bear cross frozen Baffin Bay north of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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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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  • POLAR BEAR. Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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. 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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  • ANTARCTICA, South Pole Ski Expedition. Windy camp at 83 degrees south latitude on featureless polar plateau
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  • Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. A polar tourist pretends to pull a cruise ship.
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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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  • 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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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie stands beside ice sculptures created by British artist Andy Goldsworthy, for whom Gordon was the polar guide.
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  • A polar expedition member gathers snow to melt for water.
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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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  • 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 polar geologist, working in sub-zero temperatures, drills dynamite holes in search of minerals on far north of the Arctic Circle on Spitsbergen Island.
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  • A twin otter bush plane refuels on Ellsmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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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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  • ANTARCTICA. Hikers on polar icecap below Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • A polar hunter's dog sled crosses a frozen fjord on Spitsbergen Island.
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  • Polar tourists stand below a coastal glacier front at Inglefield Bay, Arctic Ocean.
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  • Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway. A snowmobile camping expedition races along a lonely polar trail.
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  • MOUNTAINEERING, SPITSBERGEN, Norway. Jay Jensen (MR) rewarms from sub-zero polar cold on ski expedition at 80 degrees north latitude.
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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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  • 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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  • 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 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.
    NP 1936.jpg
  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
    NP 1931.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.
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  • Polar Bear drifts on floating ice in Arctic Ocean near Franz Josef Land, Russia.
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  • A fast-moving polar glacier empties into a fjord on Canada's Baffin Island , north of the Arctic Circle.
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  • Polar Sun Spire and Broad Peak divide the Walker Arm (foreground) from Sam Ford Fjord, partly hidden behind the foreground peaks.
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  • BAFFIN ISLAND, NUNAVUT, CANADA.  Belvedere Ridge & Sam Ford Fjord (capped by Broad Peak on left). Polar Sun Spire above Walker Arm foreground.
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  • ARCTIC CANADA. Polar bear track beside size 11 boot.
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  • 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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  • The northern Ellsworth Mountains rise above Antarctica's vast polar plateau.
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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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  • 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.
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  • An aging DC-4 lands on the blue ice runway at Patriot Hills in the Ellsworth Mountains of 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Icebergs float near the Loubet Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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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.
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  • An iceberg floats in the Peltier Channel below the Fief Range on Wiencke Island, Antarctica.
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  • The sun rises over Anvers Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • The sun rises over Anvers Island and the Neumeyer Channel, 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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  • Gentoo Penguins stand in a rookery surrounding Port Lockroy Museum on tiny Goudier Island, Antarctica. Behind is Mount Luigi, highest of the Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains on Wienke Island.
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  • Gentoo Penguins stand in a rookery surrounding Port Lockroy Museum on tiny Goudier Island, Antarctica.  Behind is Mount Luigi, highest of the Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains on Wienke Island.
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  • Gentoo Penguins stand in a rookery surrounding Port Lockroy Museum on tiny Goudier Island, Antarctica. Behind is Mount Luigi, highest of the Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains on Wienke Island.
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  • Gentoo Penguins stand in a rookery surrounding Port Lockroy Museum on tiny Goudier Island, Antarctica. Behind is Mount Luigi, highest of the Seven Sisters of Fief in the Fief Mountains on Wienke Island.
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  • The National Geographic Endeavor anchors near Port Lockroy on Goudier Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. This is the site of an abandoned British Science Base that has been restored into a museum.  Anvers Island is in the background.
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  • A power plant burns locally-mined coal in Longyearbyen, Norway's northmost town.
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  • Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.	A dog team mushes across frozen Great Slave Lake.
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  • Jean-Louis Etienne writes in his journal at the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition.
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  • Members of the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition pose for pictures at the ceremonial South Pole.  From left to right: Keizo Funatsu (Japan), Jean-Louis Etienne (France), Will Steger (USA), Qin Dahe (China), Geoff Somers (UK), and Victor Boyarsky (USSR).
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  • Having reached the South Pole, about halfway through the 1989-1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition, Jean-Louis Etienne and Victor Boyarsky attempt to radio news to the outside world.
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