Arctic & Antarctic

Sleeping Giant: Shadows from the Tailenguak Cliffs fall on an iceberg calved ans sculpted from the 110km wide Humboldt Glacier, Kane Basin, Nares Straight, Greenland, 16th July 2009. <br />
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Kane Basin forms a graveyard of stunning icebergs, mostly kept in the basin by weather and current. The photograph was made by Dave Walsh from an inflatable from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, which spent much from June until August working in this remarkably remote region, studying the effects of climate change in the Arctic, and enabling a team of independent scientists to carry out research work on two of Greenland's largest glaciers, Peterman and Humboldt, each thought to be responsible for 10% of Greenland's ice output. So far, glaciers at this latitude have not reacted to the effects of climate change like their counterparts in southern Greenland - but it's only a matter of time.<br />
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When explorer Elisha Kane crossed this area in 1854 this area would have been covered in sea ice, even in summer. In fact, while Kane's expedition reached the Humboldt Glacier by sled, The Arctic Sunrise was able to sail right to the Glacier edge without any real difficulty. The Nares Strait itself - only navigated by a small amount of ships in the last half-century, was ice free in June 2009 - the first time in recorded history.<br />
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Glacier ice floating in Torssaukatak, Kujalleq, South Greenland, en route to Prins Christian Sund from the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during expedition to investigate the effects of climate change in the Arctic.<br />
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Arctic Tern ready to defend - and that means attacking the photographer - above its nest, which it constructed in gravel alongside a road at the scientific research base in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, 1200km from the North Pole. Arctic terns migrate more than any other species of any known animal - up to 70,000km to Antarctica and back to the Arctic every year.<br />
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Sleeping Dragon, Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, East Greenland. <br />
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This iceberg is calved from Kangerdlussuaq glacier, the largest glacier on the east coast of Greenland's ice sheet and probably the world's fastest moving glacier. Kangerdlugssuaq tripled its speed between 2004 and 2005, and is now rapidly moving mass out of the middle of Greenland's ice sheet, in the form of icebergs. This has urgent implications for both the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet, and for the rate of sea level rise globally.<br />
Taken from the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, during a 2009 expedition to investigate the effects of climate change in the Arctic. <br />
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Whale skull, possibly a beluga, on a piece of driftwood, near Mushamna trapping station, Woodfjorden, Svalbard.<br />
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Iceberg: ice formations on an iceberg, Kane Basin, Northwest Greenland. Seen from the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during an expedition to examine the effects of climate change in the Arctic.<br />
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This iceberg reminds of the painting by Bocklin called "The Isle of the Dead" - it's difficult to show scale with an image like this, but the iceberg was at least 100m tall in places, if not more. Photographed from on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, in the Southern Ocean, 8th February 2007. .... This mage can be licensed via Millennium Images. Contact me for more details, or email mail@milim.com For prints, contact me, or click "add to cart" to some standard print options.

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$Limited edition Giclée Prints available - contact me for more details.<br /> <br /> An iridescent blue iceberg - the blue comes from thousands of years of snow being slowly compressed into a hard glacier. As air is squeezed out, ice crystals grow, and absorbing light from the red end of the visible spectrum - leaving blue light to be refracted. This mage can be licensed via Millennium Images. Contact me for more details, or email mail@milim.com For prints, contact me, or click "add to cart" to some standard print options.$