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
Small sea ice floes floating by at the ice shelf edge
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
Inlet in Ekstroemisen, where part of an emperor penguin colony had been after the sea ice broke up
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- Old iceberg, Greenland
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- Kangia, Greenland
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- Iceberg close to Ilulissat, Greenland
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- RV Polarstern at Aklestad Inlet 1990, Antarctica
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- RV Polarstern at Aklestad Inlet, Atka Bay, Antarctica
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- German Antarctic wintering base Neumayer II
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- Emperor penguin colony, Atka Bay
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- Weddell seal with young one
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- Atka Bay in winter, on the way to the seal colony
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- Field camp, Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 1992
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- Summer night in the frozen Weddell Sea, Antarctica
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- Albedo measurements of sea ice, Antarctica, WWSP 1986
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- Frozen sea ice (old pancake ice) with table iceberg, Antarctica
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- Table iceberg in summer, Weddell Sea