Exploring Svalbard / Spitsbergen - The Arctic (approx. 79-81 N.)
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Protecting the eggs
The expedition team on the tundra
Please take my photo now!
Permagnus to the right
Approaching the pack ice 81 degrees, 10 minutes North, with only the North Pole ahead of us
Stepping "ashore"
In the ice
Sun on the ice
Jan-Eric on the ice pack
Floating next to the ice
Champagne with its own chiller
Back at the Seven Islands the swimming walruses are catching up with us
... with another sighting of polar bear
Snowing on the Cayman Islands flag
...and on Annika
...and Arne
Puffins flying
and swimming
At anchor next to a hut for hikers
Kittiwakes nesting
... and Guillemots
Feeding the chicks
Andre shooting Kittiwakes and Brunnich's Guillemots
At the end of our Svalbard cruise
Sailing south again along the Svalbard coast
At Festingen at the entrance of Groenfjorden
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