Photos Of The Arctic

[knocker]

Came across some interesting photos of the Arctic from the SWIMA Project.

Blue glacier ice, Northwest Greenland

© Lars Witting/ARC-PIC.COM

An iceberg collapses, Disko Bay, West Greenland

© Carsten Egevang/ARC-PIC.COM

Surface meltwater disappears down a moulin. Near teh ice margin in the Ilulissat region, West Greenland

© Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado

Clearing snow drifts in downtown areas is an almost constant job. NEEM ice coring camp at the Greenland Ice Sheet, 77°27’N / 51°04’W, 2454 m altitude

© NEEM ice core drilling project, www.neem.ku.dk

Drained glacier dammed meltwater lake reveals walls of bue ice. Near Helheim Glacier, Southeast Greenland

© Henrik Egede Lassen/Alpha Film

The surface of theGreenland Ice Sheet in winter

© Henning Thing

Heavily crevassed area of Jakobshavn Isbræ near the glacier front. Ilulissat, West Greenland

© Konrad Steffen/CIRES, University of Colorado

Meltwater pond on an iceberg, Northwest Greenland

© Lars Witting/ARC-PIC.COM

© Carsten Egevang/ARC-PIC.COM

Long-line fishing in Ilulissat Icefjord, Kangia, West Greenland

[Backtrack]

Any chance you can resize those? They are very hard for me to view, even on my laptop's widescreen!

I do love the Arctic though and by the looks of it they are some very nice pictures.

Edit: They are fine now they have fully loaded!

Edited May 22, 2011 by Funnel

[grab my graupel]

What breathtaking scenes those are WS. Thanks for posting them

[Polar Maritime]

Nice photos, thanks for posting. They capture the real and raw nature of Greenland, would love to visit one day !