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Svalbard | 34th Polish Polar Expedition

95 images Created 9 Apr 2013

In summer 2011, I joined the 34th Polish Polar Expedition to Spitsbergen, Svalbard. I was invited to help deploy and analyze time-lapse photography of calving glaciers in Hornsund Fjord.

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  • Paulabreen and Skobreen glaciers flowing into Rindersbukta fjord in Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
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  • A plane lands at the airport in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
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  • Marcin Tukalski, student at the University of Silesia, climbs off the Eltanin, anchored in Josephbukta, to visit a research outpost in Calypsobyen, Svalbard. The yacht travels from Poland to Svalbard every summer to provide transportation to researchers and tourists. Recherchebreen is visible in the distance.
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  • Men hike the beach at sunset to visit a research outpost in Calypsobyen, Svalbard. Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) fly overhead.
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  • Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) tracks in mud on the beach near Calypsobyen, Svalbard.
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  • Zbigniew Nawrot stretches while restless scientists Grzegorz Gajek (center) and Piotr Zagorski wait out high winds in the comfort of the Polish field station in Calypsobyen, Svalbard.
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  • Men explore the coal mining operation erected by the British Northern Exploration Company in Calypsobyen, Svalbard in the early 1900s.
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  • Remains of a narrow gauge railway with a rusted carriage on the beach at Calypsobyen, Svalbard, site of a coal mining operation erected by the British Northern Exploration Company in the early 1900s. Structures and a barge are visible in the distance.
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  • An abandoned building on the coast at Calypsobyen, Svalbard, site of a coal mining operation erected by the British Northern Exploration Company in the early 1900s.
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  • Polish glaciologist Jacek Jania waits restlessly for high winds to subside in the comfort of the Polish field station in Calypsobyen, Svalbard. A geological map and pinup girl Playboy calendars adorn the wall behind him.
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  • Researchers, dressed in survival suits, launch an inflatable boat into the water to transport heavy equipment up the coast at the Polish field station in Calypsobyen, Svalbard.
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  • Polish geologists Lukasz Franczak (left) and Grzegorz Gajek, wearing survival suits, emerge from the water at the Polish field station in Calypsobyen, Svalbard after helping to launch a boat into rough water.
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  • Polish geologist Lukasz Franczak wears a survival suit on the beach at the Polish field station in Calypsobyen, Svalbard.
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  • Marcin Tukalski, student at the University of Silesia (right) sits down with geologist Grzegorz Gajek outside the main barracks building in Calypsobyen, Svalbard. Site of a coal mining operation erected by the British Northern Exploration Company in the early 1900s, the structures are now used as a summer field station by Polish researchers.
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  • Polish scientists walk onboard the Eltanin, anchored in Josephbukta, near the research outpost at Calypsobyen, Svalbard. The yacht travels from Poland to Svalbard every summer to provide transportation to researchers and tourists. Renardbreen is visible in the background.
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  • Sunset over mountains on the coast in Spitsbergen, Svalbard.
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  • Researchers arrive by dingy and sailboat as others watch from shore at the Polish research station in Hyttevika, Svalbard.
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  • Scientists gather outside the Polish research station of Baranowka, Svalbard. Founded in 1971, the station is operated by the Geographical Institute of the University of Wroclaw in Poland. Tonefjellet rises in the distance.
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  • Jaroslaw Halat (left) and Marcin Tukalski, students from the University of Silesia, ascend Angellfellet near the Polish research station of Baranowka, Svalbard. Werenskioldbreen is visible in the background.
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  • Jaroslaw Halat (right) and Marcin Tukalski, students from the University of Silesia, on the summit of Angellfellet near the Polish research station of Baranowka, Svalbard.
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  • A sailboat anchored off the rocky shore in Hyttevika, Svalbard.
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  • A man raises the Polish and Norwegian flags on a flagpole outside the  Polish research station in Hyttevika, Svalbard.
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  • Polish sailors warm up with coffee and tea with scientists at the Polish research station in Hyttevika, Svalbard.
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  • Canada geese (Branta canadensis) fly off as a reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) trots by on the coast near Hyttevika, Svalbard.
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  • Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on the coast near Hyttevika, Svalbard. Torellbreen and Raudfjellet are visible across the fjord.
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  • Scientists arrive by ship from Poland to the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Gasbreen and surrounding mountains at sunset in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Polish meteorologist Tomasz Wawrzyniak mingles with the huskies on guard (against polar bears) at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Sunset over the Hansbreen terminus and the peaks of Prinsessetoppen and Kamkrona, seen from the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) fly overhead, feeding and aggressively defending their nesting area, on the coast in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Geophysicist Grzegorz Karasinski stands with a gun at Arieskaret Pass during a sunset hike above the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Rafal Flieger, taking time off from work at the Polish Polar Station, scrambles up the narrow ridge of Ariekammen for sunset views over Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Rafal Flieger (front) and Grzegorz Karasinski, taking time off from work at the Polish Polar Station, scramble up the narrow ridge of Ariekammen for views over Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Low clouds approach the coast from the Greenland Sea, seen from high on Ariekammen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Rafal Flieger (l-r), Lukasz Flieger, Magdalena Puczko, and Grzegorz Karasinski take time off from work at the Polish Polar Station to hike the narrow ridge of Ariekammen for sunset views over Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Calved ice fills the forebay of Hansbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Men explore the calved icebergs filling the forebay of Hansbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Glaciologist Jacek Jania starts the outboard motor as Jaroslaw Halat and Ethan Welty stabilize the boat on the ice choked beach at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Glaciologist Jacek Jania in the field during a rainstorm in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A calved iceberg floating near the coast in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Glaciologist Jacek Jania skillfully navigates a motorboat through the ice-choked forebay of Paierlbreen, an actively calving tidewater glacier, in Hornsund, Svalbard to install time-lapse cameras.
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  • Birds fly overhead in the iceberg choked forebay of actively calving Paierlbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Hanging valley glaciers and floating icebergs in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Scientists (Jaroslaw Halat) return late from the field to the ice-choked shore of the Polish Polar Station in Svalbard.
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  • Flare guns and Nazi-era German rifles for self defense against polar bears at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Departing members of the summer field season take a group photo on the beach outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Calved icebergs fill the forebay of Hansbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Icebergs, calved by nearby Hansbreen, deposited on the beach by the tide in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A Soviet-era amphibious vehicle is used to shuttle gasoline from a delivery ship to the storage tanks on land at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki, Krysztof Herman, and Robert Zmuda operate a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle to shuttle gasoline from a delivery ship to the storage tanks on land at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki stands proudly as gasoline is pumped into storage tanks at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Rows of fuel drums outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The station operates year round and uses 90,000 liters of gasoline per year to operate generators, boats, snowmobiles, and heavy machinery.
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  • Purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) on the coast in the forebay of Hansbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Grooves on the underside of an iceberg calved by Hansbreen, formed by sliding of the glacier on its bed, in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A feather among stones on the coast in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Oceanographer Waldemar Walczowski and station cook Dominik Petelski cross Hornsund in a motorboat on a field expedition to Samarinbreen glacier, Svalbard.
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  • Acoustics specialist Krysztof Herman dressed in a survival suit and ready to help out with glacier field work at Samarinbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Dark rocks, absorbing more sunlight than the surrounding ice, selectively melt a layer of ice formed on the surface of a meltwater pool on Samarinbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Acoustics specialist Krysztof Herman (helping out with glacier field work) navigates the crevassed surface of Samarinbreen, Hornsund, Svalbard using his (polar bear) rifle as a probe.
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  • The calving terminus of Samarinbreen, a tidewater glacier in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Dramatically eroded nunataks rise above the calving terminus of Samarinbreen, a tidewater glacier in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Scientists return from the field, crossing Hornsund by motorboat on the way to the Polish Polar Station in Svalbard.
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  • Station cook Dominik Petelski smokes a cigarette on the beach outside the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Icebergs, calved by nearby Hansbreen, deposited on the beach by the tide in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • An iceberg, calved by nearby Hansbreen, deposited on the beach by the tide in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Geophysicist Antoine Kies exercises with a punching bag at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Marta Bania (left) and Robert Zmuda play ping pong in the storage warehouse at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • To the amusement of Tomasz Wawrzyniak (left) and Liliana Keslinka-Nawrot, Adam Nawrot is aggressively muzzled by one of the guard huskies at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Men discuss field plans over drinks celebrating a birthday at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Marta Bania shaves Lukasz Gryglicki's hair into a crazy mohawk hairdo at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Electrical engineer Jacek Renkas scrubs rust from the hull of a Soviet-era amphibious vehicle still in use at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. Established in 1957, the station has operated year-round since 1978, and is run by the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academic of Sciences.
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  • Lukasz Gryglicki rolls a fuel drum, pushed inland by high winds during a violent storm, back towards the shore at the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A Christian cross on the shore overlooking icebergs and rough seas outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A large backlit iceberg at the entrance to Bergerbukta, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Glaciologist Agnieszka Piechota in the field at Paierlbreen glacier, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • A large iceberg on the coast in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Portrait of a calved iceberg floating in choppy water in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Agnieszka Piechota rinses salt off Dariusz Ignatiuk's survival suit in the shower of the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard before it is placed in storage until the next field season.
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  • Franciszek Krzeminski and Wladyslaw Gora work on the plumbing of a new wet lab at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Rafal Flieger works on his laptop in his dark dorm room at the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Rocks and icebergs on the coast in Hornsund, Svalbard. Gasbreen and surrounding mountains are visible through the mist.
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  • Station cook Dominik Petelski (left) and glaciologist Dariusz Ignatiuk sit together against a historic hut still standing outside the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. One of the station's huskies stands guard.
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  • Gasbreen and surrounding mountains at sunset in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Damian Zieba hikes up Fugleberget at sunset above the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard. The upper tributaries of Hansbreen are visible behind him.
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  • Icebergs, calved by nearby Hansbreen, line the coast in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Icebergs, calved by nearby Hansbreen, line the coast below the Polar Polish Station in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • Polish scientists departing the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard hike to a beach where they can be picked up by boat.
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  • Dariusz Ignatiuk fires a flare gun in celebration and goodbye as he and colleagues pull away from the Polish Polar Station in Hornsund, Svalbard at the end of their field season.
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  • Norwegian, Russian, and Polish oceanographers participating in a science diplomacy meeting regain the MS Stalbas on an inflatable boat in Hornsund, Svalbard.
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  • The MS Stalbas shines a search light into thick fog off the coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, looking for the small Polish sailing yacht Eltanin charged with ferrying some of the crew back to Longyearbyen.
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  • Krzysztof Rozanski, captain of the Eltanin, welcomes a zodiac of Polish researchers coming aboard out in the Greenland Sea, off the coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The yacht sails from Poland to Svalbard every summer to provide transportation to researchers and tourists.
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  • Captain Krzysztof Rozanski docks the Eltanin at the port in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The yacht sails from Poland to Svalbard every summer to provide transportation to researchers and tourists.
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  • Dariusz Ignatiuk (left) and Agnienka Piechota, Polish geologists from the University of Silesia, check into a hotel in Longyearbyen, Svalbard,  on the last night of their Arctic field season.
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  • Streets and buildings of Longyearbyen, Svalbard shrouded in fog.
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