Arctic Landscapes

Arctic Nature & Wildlife

Polar Bears

Arctic fox

Musk Oxen

Caribou

Walrus

Arctic Birds

Arctic Plants

Arctic Ice

Arctic Geology

Other Galleries

Arctic Landscapes

Dramatic view of The Cathedral by moonlight. Ø Fjord Scoresbysund. East Greenland.

Clouds roll over a small mountain range in a glacier Spitsbergen

Icebergs and the dramatic scenery of Renland and Røde Fiord. Scoresbysund. East Greenland. 2005

Little Auks / Dovekies fly in front of the Annanbreen Glacier on Amsterdam Island Spitsbergen

Dramatic rock formation on the North coast of Inglefield Bay in Northwest Greenland. 1991

Boreal Forest. Winter sunset in the taiga near Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. 1999

Fogbow over the thawing sea ice in the summer. Chukchi Sea / Arctic Ocean. Siberia. 1997

Moss Campion growing on a rocky ledge in Adventdalen, summer in Spitsbergen

Aerial view of the Eskimo Village of Shishmaref which is threatened by coastal erosion.Seward Peninsula, Alaska. 2003

Purple Saxifrage is the first plant to flower amongst the Summer Tundra meltpools. N.W. Greenland. 1989

Sastrugi etched in the snow covered winter tundra near Lavrentiya. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2002

Small clumps of larch trees surviving on the frozen tundra near George River, Northern Quebec, Canada

White clouds over Cotton Grass. Lake Hazen. Ellesmere Nat. Park Res. Nunavut, Canada. 1994

Kenamu river flows through boreal forest shortly before freeze up. Labrador, Canada. 1997

The floe edge in winter with newly formed ice flowers. Melville Bay. N.W.Greenland. 1986

The floe edge at sunset with different ages of ice, grease ice and iceberg. Melville Bay. N.W. Greenland. 1986

Eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) resting at the floe edge near Saunders Island. N.W. Greenland. 1989

A small river winds its way through snow covered boreal forest. Labrador, Canada. 1997

Abstract pattern of the sandbar and lagoon at the mouth of the Dombrava River. Hurry Inlet. East Greenland. 2005

Footprints in the sand in Eleonora Bay, Musk oxen, arctic fox and Glaucous Gull. Kejser Franz Joseph Fiord. North-east Greenland National Park. 2005

A small piece of glacial ice frozen into sea ice on the coast of Northwest Greenland. 1980

Moonrise over the church in the Finnmark town of Kautokeino in the Polar night. Northern Norway. 1990

Dramatic Asperatus cloud formation as a storm brews at dawn over Inglefield Bay. Northwest Greenland. 2008

Reindeer migrate through the Kildal Valley to summer pastures. Travel is easier at night. Finnmark, N.Norway. 1985

Aerial view of taiga (boreal forest) with a newly frozen river in the autumn. Yamal, western Siberia, Russia.

Snow covered larch trees in winter sunshine. Boreal Forest. Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. 1999

Dusk on a winter's day in the forest on Shaman Mountain near Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. 1999

Reindeer at their winter pastures in the Verkhoyansk range of mountains. Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. 1999

A rainbow over a Khanty reindeer herders' camp in the Polar Ural Mountains. Yamal, Western Siberia, Russia

Low hanging stratus clouds obscure the mountain tops in Ø Fjord, Scoresbysund. East Greenland.

The distinctive Grundvigskirken seen from Jyttehavn, Scoresbysund. East Greenland.

Altocumulus and stratus clouds low around the mountains in Scoresbysund Fiord. East Greenland.

Glaciers have smoothed striped strata rock from the Cambrian and late pre-Cambrian in Segelsällskapets Fjord, North-East Greenland National Park.

Autumn mists and icebergs. Stor Ø, Rødefjord, Scoresbysund. East Greenland.

Tundra, Aulavik National Park, patterned ground and tundra ponds. Northern Banks Island, NWT, Arctic Canada

Subadult polar bear, Ursus maritimus, hunting for seals on the melting pack ice, Svalbard Archipelago, Arctic Norway