for four days, the northernmost town on Earth.
Searching the glacial moraine with Ida and Ryan for Paleocene plant fossils.
Me at the headworks to coal mine 2B above town.
Inside the headworks at mine 2B.
Exploring the coal mining headworks with Cobus and Blackjack.
Svalbard poppy enjoying the short summer bloom.
Lilliehöökbreen glacier complex
Calving front of Lilliehöökbreen glacier
Bearded seal on ice.
Atlantic puffin waving hello.
Barnacle geese with a chick (in nest, far right).
Exploring the edge of sea ice, approximately 81 degrees north latitude.
Landing at Hamburgbukta, northeast coast of Svalbard.
occur everywhere in Svalbard.
Walking down a medial moraine in Kongsfjord.
never disappoints the guests and expedition staff!
Walrus are, without a doubt, my favorite marine mammal.
at the shooting range in Longyearbyen.
Landing site at Kapp Lee.
Slumbering walrus.
Landing site at Bolthodden.
Spectacular alpine geology.
Remains of Swedish-Russian “Arc of the Meridian Project” base from 1899.
Tidewater glacier in Bellsund.
Remains of beluga whale hunting camp.
Well maintained Norwegian hunter/trapper cabin at Bamsebu.
The mast at Ny Alesund where Roald Amundsen launched his balloon in 1926.
Geological buffet of various rock on a recessional moraine.
Sun flare in Isfjorden.
