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Meltwater
The ice is melting… Not just as it drifts south towards the warmer waters of the Atlantic. It is melting overall. Each summer the Arctic Ocean has more open water. Each winter the ice extends a little...
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Desolate Coastlines
Sometimes we came in sight of land, desolate cliffs that few people ever see. These cliffs are the Northwest coast of Iceland, layers of black rock – plateau basalts, laid down in a massive eruption...
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Trapped!
I woke to a horrible sound of ice scraping along the hull of the ship, resonating through my cabin. I could see it going past outside my porthole and I hurried up onto the bridge. Our ship wasn’t ice...
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Bear Island
The seas around Bear Island don’t freeze, even though we are so close to the Arctic. This is because we are in the warmer, northwards flowing waters where the Norwegian current becomes the West...
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Sculpted by Wind
The ice on these floes has been formed over many seasons, successive freezing during winter and accumulation of layers of snow. Each layer compressed those beneath, snow crystals coalescing, freezing...
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