Arctic Wildlife and Landscapes

Dramatic icy landscapes featuring polar bears and seals, depicting their habitats and the beauty of the Arctic.

Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen. Polar bears fight over seal kill at sunrise.

Gulls (Laridae) over blue and black ash-coloured icebergs and ice crystals, glacier lagoon of Joekulsarlon, Vatnajoekull Glacier, Austurland, East Iceland, Iceland, Europe

Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) on ice floe, Spitsbergen, Norway

Barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) with goslings, Jokulsarlon ice field, Iceland, June.

Polar Bear walking on pack ice. Date:

Polar bear Ursus maritimus on disappearing sea ice, Svalbard Archipelgo, Norwegian Arctic

Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus, Two Cubs, North East Greenland Coast, Greenland, Arctic

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) on ice, Svalbard, Norway

Norway, Svalbard, Spitsbergen. Polar bears fight over seal kill at sunrise.

Adelie penguin, Antarctica Antarctica

Team of sled dog during winter in Uummannaq in Greenland. Dog teams are draft animals for the fishermen and stay all winter on the sea ice of the fjord. Greenland, Denmark.

Lone penguin standing on iceberg

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) standing on the beach at the colony on Paulet Island, an island off the north-eastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) travelling in Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica

Penguins walking to colony. Gentoo penguin in deep snow in Antarctic Peninsula, Danco Island, late summer

N.A., USA, Alaska, Chenega Glacier, Chugach National Forest, Harbor Seals - Phoca vitulina

Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, Antarctic peninsula, Austral summer

Iceberg and Adelie Penguin, the Antarctic.

Humpback whale, Antarctica.

Emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri, hauled out on sea ice in Duse Bay, Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

emperor penguins heading to colony, aptenodytes forsteri coulman island, ross sea, antarctica.

Small penguin looking over snow pile. Copyright Max Seigal Photography, www.maxwilderness.com

Gentoo Penguins on Iceberg in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctica

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing on ice floe, Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic, Norway, Europe

Harbor seals (Common seals, Phoca vitulina) basking on ice in Jokulsarlon ice lagoon in Vatnajokull NP. Europe, northern Europe, Iceland.

Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactila), Kongsfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Arctic, Norway, Europe

Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) flock rests on a ice floe in Hornsund, Burgerbukta, southern Svalbard archipelago, Norway, in summertime.

Antarctic minke whale or southern minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis), breaching, Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica

Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii and tourists in Zodiac boat, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Humpback whale in the Southern Ocean. Antarctica. Mammal

Group of Adelie penguins on the ice floe Terre Adelie

Harbour seal (Phoca vitulina), South Sawyer Glacier, Tracy Arm-Ford's Terror Wilderness area, Southeast Alaska, United States of America, North Americ...

polar bear jumping ursus maritimus date: 10.12.2008 ref: zb486_126122_0038 compulsory credit: nhpa/photoshot

Polar bear on ice Larsen Sound Canada

Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) on a tabular iceberg, Antarctica

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) on pack ice, Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Norway, Europe

Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) pair on sea ice, Larsen B Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

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North America, USA, Alaska, South Sawyer Glacier, Tracy Arm. harbor seals on iceberg

Antarctica, Antarctic Penninsula. Paradise Harbour aka Paridise Bay, crabeater seal on ice (Lobodon carcinophagus)

Gentoo penguin on an iceberg, Antarctica. June 12, 2009

Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) flock feeding in front of Monaco Glacier, Leifdefjorden, Svalbard, Norway

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) running across ice, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

ARCTIC TALE (2007), directed by SARAH ROBERTSON.

Two Humpback Baleen Whales Chasing Krill blue iceberg Floating sea water Charlotte Bay, Antarctica.

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) on pack ice, Norway

Wildlife watching, Lindblad Cove, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) adult female and her seven-month-old cub on the pack ice, Spitzberg, Svalbard.

On a beautiful sunny day, a polar bear hunts on the ice floe

ANTARCTICA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, DEVIL ISLAND, ADELIE PENGUINS ON ICE FLOE

Humpback whale in the Southern Ocean. Antarctica

Adelie Penguin, (Pygoscelis adeliae), Antarctica, Brown Bluff, group of adults in snow

Asia, Russia, Siberian Arctic. Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on ice pack

Polar Bear - with snow melt waterfall (Ursus maritimus). On Arctic Glacier, Svalbard Archipelago.

Penguins on an Ice Floe

Polar bear on ice in Chukchi Sea, Russia Far East

A Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus) is perched on top of an iceberg floating in Cierva Cove, a cove along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.

Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica) colony at the coast, Southern Thule, South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica

Adult crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophaga), on ice near Snow Hill Island, Weddell Sea, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Colony of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) in Antarctica

Leopard de mer (Hydrurga leptonyx) resting on an iceberg, Larsen C ice shelf, Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Norway, Svalbard. Close-up of male walrus in water.

Two Polar bear cubs (Ursus maritimus) running over pack ice, Svalbard Archipelago, Barents Sea, Norway, Europe

Birdlife in Jokulsarlon, a large glacial lake in southeast Iceland

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus), female with two cubs, walking along waterside, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, North America

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) adult on a patch of pack ice shrouded in a light mist off the Svalbard archipelago

Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) swims around Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) standing on ice floe, Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) recently risen from hibernation in the caldera of the Uzon Volcano. Kronotsky Zapovednik Nature Reserve, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East, April.

Tourists in a Zodiac looking at a leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), Enterprise Island, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Large group of harbor seals haul out on icebergs in front of South Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm, Tracy Arm_Fords Terror Wilderness, Southeast Alaska, S...

Humpback whale in the Southern Ocean. Antarctica

White-throated dipper near a river Oulanka NP Finland

Humpback whales, floating icebergs, Ilulissat Icefjord, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Western Greenland, Denmark, Polar Regions

Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer) adult, breeding plumage, swimming on partially frozen lake habitat, Lake Myvatn, Iceland, May

Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula. Snowy sheathbill (Chionis alba)

Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) on the ice pack, at dawn, Antarctica

Lone polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing on drift ice, ice floe in the Arctic Ocean along the Svalbard coast, Spitsbergen, Norway, Europe

Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) resting on ice floe along the coast of Svalbard, Spitsbergen

An Antarctic shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis) carries sea moss in the Antarctic Peninsula, Polar Regions

Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) resting on icebergs in LeConte Bay named in honor of the Californian biologist Joseph LeConte, in Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, USA.

United States, Alaska, Hallo Bay, Katmai National Park. Girzzly bear silhouette while walking in water.

southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina

Walruses hauled out on ice floe Odobenus rosmarus} Canadian Arctic Canada

Surfacing Fin Whales, Disko Bay, Greenland.

Papuan colony of penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula

Female polar bear and young cub looking toward the Healy. Alaska, Beaufort Sea, North of Point Barrow. Photographed by Kelley Elliott. Dated 2005

Female polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on the blue ice pack north of the Svalbard archipelago.

Mountain goat, Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai Mountains, Kenai Peninsula, southcentral, Alaska.

Antarctica, Snow Hill. A crabeater seal patrols the edge of the ice pack.

Polar bear, Ursus maritimus, on ice by ocean, November, Near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarctica) colony by Southern Ocean

SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS, ZAVODOVSKI ISLAND, CHINSTRAP PENGUINS RETURNING TO NESTS IN SPRING

Gulls flying above two Killer whales / Orcas (Orcinus orca) surfacing, Tysfjord, Norway, November

Killer whales Orca Orcinus orca in front of tabular icebergs, Southern Ocean, Antarctic, Polar Regions

Humpback whale in front of icebergs at the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord at Disko Bay, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Denmark, Greenland.

wolf at winter stream canis lupus usa.

Panorama of kittiwakes flying past ice cliff; Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Southern sea lions on Rocks near Beagle Channel and Bridges Islands, Ushuaia, southern Argentina

Group of belugas, beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas), Kapp Wijk, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Europe

A group of Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) is feeding near Port Lockroy, Neumayer Channel, Antarctic Peninsula.

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