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Spitzberg Souvenirs

Film making during a week trip to Spitzberg.

 

End of June 2014, we spent a week on a ship in the pack ice north of Svalbard.

 

Latitude 80° - Only 1'100 km from the North Pole... a little freezing as the temperature was only 2 to 6 Celsius these first Summer days.

 

Our goal was to see the Little Auk and,

if possible, a few Polar Bears.

 

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Midnight Sun.

June 25th - 11:59 PM

 

 


Little Auks are Alcidae, as are Puffins or Razorbills, but only to be seen in Svalbard and Groenland.

 

Rather small in size - only 20 cm - one might think it will therefore be difficult to get a good picture of them. However, as they were very confident, they came close to people, which helped us getting these nice results as you can see :


On another hand, the sight of one or two Polar Bears would have really been a plus.

Nikon Coolpix P-520 4.3-180 mm (24-1000mm 24x36 equivalent)


Fortunately, everybody was quiet enough to permit this young female to come very close to the ship.

(click on picture to enlarge)

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