Image gallery Archives - Discovering the Arctic

Nenets reindeer herders

Nenets reindeer herders and power pylons

Nenets reindeer herders and natural resource development

Alaskan landscape

Glacier

Landscape wide view of Alaska with snow and glacier

Drilling rig and lorries

Drilling a deep well with a drilling rig at an oil and gas field in the Arctic.

Drilling a deep well with a drilling rig at an oil and gas field. The deposit is located in the Far North beyond the Arctic Circle. The shooting was conducted in the winter during the polar day.

Ice fishing

Ice fishing in tents at night

Traditional Igloo

Print of an Inuit Igloo, from the 1800s

Nuuk, Greenland

Night view at Nuuk, Greenland’s capital city

Qaanaaq hunter

Aviaq, a subsistence hunter from Qaanaaq, Greenland

Aviaq a subsistence hunter from Qaanaaq, Greenland. Raymond Molony

Arctic tundra, Russia

Arctic tundra in the Jamal Region, Russia

Tundra, aerial photography. Jamal Region, Russia

Stranded polar bear

A polar bear stranded on the ice

Aurora at Tromso

The northern lights above Tromso, Norway. © V. Belov / Shutterstock

The polar lights in Tromso, Norway.

Iceberg

Iceberg at Disco Bay, Greenland.

Huge icebergs of different forms in the Disco Bay, Greenland. Their source is by the Jakobshavn glacier. This is a consequence of the phenomenon of global warming and catastrophic thawing of ice