Gallery

Apart from being “study objects”, the polar regions are breathtakingly beautiful:

(all photos: © E. Schlosser)

A small group of penguins at the inlet in the wonderful light of the midnight sun

A small group of penguins at the inlet in the wonderful light of the midnight sun

Small sea ice floes floating by at the ice shelf edge

Small sea ice floes floating by at the ice shelf edge

No Photoshop! The colors are true!

No Photoshop! The colors are true!

The sea ice in the Atka Bay keeps coming back after the main break-up when easterly winds prevailed

The sea ice in the Atka Bay keeps coming back after the main break-up when easterly winds prevailed

Inlet in Ekstroemisen, where part of an emperor penguin colony had been after the sea ice broke up

Inlet in Ekstroemisen, where part of an emperor penguin colony had been after the sea ice broke up