research ship making its way through sea ice, Norway
a man wearing a traditional hat in a tea field
lighthouse on a cliff at sunset in Scotland
polar bears play-fighting on an ice floe
sightseers in abandoned bumper car track in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
boy running up a blue-walled stairwell
Svalbard Archipelago, Norway
In temperatures that plunged to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, Norwegian research vessel R.V. Lance spent six months tethered to floating sea ice near the Svalbard archipelago to study how it behaves in the Arctic. Unlike most Arctic expeditions, the Lance conducted its study during the winter months.
Photograph by Nick Cobbing, Nat Geo Image Collection

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March 11, 2016

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