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The Kapitan Khlebnikov was built in Finland for the Soviet Union in 1981. She is a Kapitan Sorokin class icebreaker, and she uses diesel fuel. Her main engines produce 24.200 horsepower. In her early days she serviced ports in Northern Russia and Siberia, maintaining supplies during the winter months. Since her ref...
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Here we are very near to the North Pole, having a party on the drifting ice . The passengers and crew were in a festive mood despite our awakening for the arrival at the Pole in the middle of last night. The sky was clear with a brilliant sun warming us as we ventured off the ship. You might see some people dressed in ...
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The North Pole. I suppose that the best way to think of the North Pole is to consider a single point on the sea bed under the Arctic Ocean where all the Earth's lines of longitude converge. It is the one point in the Northern Hemisphere around which our planet turns, and its position now is marked by a titanium flag th...
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On our way back from the North Pole we encountered the Yamal, which was on its way to the North Pole. The Yamal has a very distinctive bow design. It is painted to look like a shark's mouth. Watching from the bridge deck of the 50 Years of Victory, we saw the ice breaker at work. The teeth rose and fell relative to the...
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Early on a July morning these amazing animals lumbered out of the fog on the starboard side of the I/B 50 Years of Victory. The bears didn't pay much attention to us or to our ship. Momma Bear did look briefly in our direction when her arrival was announced on our intercom. Apparently satisfied that her family was safe...
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Point Hope area as seen from out on the sea ice beyond the point.
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Point Hope Alaska. Shots taken atop an ice pressure ridge near the Point. 40 shots wide by 4 shots high. Some say Point Hope was one of the first, if not the first settlement in North America perhaps a couple thousand years ago.
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Lago di Montespluga is a storage lake at the italian side of the Spluegen Pass. Because of weather and ice it looks like northern fiords.
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One of four "scenery" pans I took around Bear Lake in RMNP around 1 pm local time. Just before it started snowing again...
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This is a small portion of the 15,000 ice cores stored in the -35 degree F. freezer at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver CO. These ice cores are from all over the world from Greenland to Antarctica.Note this is only a partial pan. My GigaPan froze - and I don't mean in the computer sense, I mean in the physica...
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