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Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands

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Sea surface covered in rounded plates of grey-white pancake ice at dusk, giving way to open water, with snowy hills on the left and a dark fog bank under a pink-tinged sky. — Pancake ice in the sunset Roxana Cremer

Snow-covered mountains behind a broad glacier ending in a fractured blue-white ice cliff above dark sea, with a thin veil of mist drifting over the ice under a clear blue sky. — Fog upon a glacier in Svalbard Roxana Cremer

Sharp mountain ridge, brown and bare on one side and snow-streaked with steep layered rock on the other, with two tiny hikers on the crest and pale flat-topped mountains behind. — Arctic in Transition: a double-faced environment Fenna Ammerlaan

Tundra dotted with white fluffy cottongrass seed heads among mossy hummocks and small pools, beside a wide fjord with snowy mountains under a cloudy sky. — Summer cottongrass bloom M. Alejandra Gómez Correa

Low bright sun over a calm sea, its light making a glittering path on the water, with hazy dark mountains on the horizon under an orange and blue sky. — Midnight sun in Svalbard M. Alejandra Gómez Correa

Aerial view of a wide coastal plain of autumn-coloured tundra with ponds and a low cliff above a seaweed-strewn tidal flat, and cloud-capped mountains and a glacier behind. — Autumn in Hornsund fjord Zuzanna Swirad

Aerial view of a broad glacier tongue covered in a dense pattern of blue-tinged crevasses, flowing between snowy mountain slopes with dark rock bands. — Glacier near Ny-Alesund, Svalbard Lekhraj Saini

Aerial view of broken sea ice: large white floes separated by dark cracks of open water, with darker thin ice beyond and snowy land on the horizon, and an aircraft wingtip at top right. — Sea Ice in Arctic Ocean Lekhraj Saini

Snow-covered settlement at night under a bright moon: a large lit wooden building, a small pale yellow hut with a red post sign, and a mast with a red light. — Himadri Research station Lekhraj Saini

Rainbow arching over a flat-topped mountain and golden brown tundra slopes, with low cloud on the left and small red and dark wooden houses in the foreground. — Arctic Colors: Rainbow Over Svalbard Kseniiia Ivanova

Snow-covered flat-topped mountain reflected in still water between patches of thin ice on a valley floor, under a pale blue sky with a few clouds. — Mountain mirror Svalbard Christian Frigaard Rasmussen

Flat, barren coastal plain of grey stones and yellowish tundra marked by a faint network of polygonal cracks, with low gravel mounds in front and a blue sea beyond. — Arctic mosaic in permafrost Sandrine Ritter

Bare mountains of tilted grey, brown and rusty layered rock with patches of snow, rising behind a wide flat plain of grey gravel under a pale blue sky. — The beauty of an Arctic rock desert Sandrine Ritter

Brown tundra with shallow meltwater ponds in the foreground, a wide blue bay beyond and snow-covered mountains with glaciers under a white overcast sky. — Contrasting colours of the Arctic Sandrine Ritter

Two large white radar dish antennas on a dark, gently sloping ridge, with broad flat-topped valley walls in blue shadow behind them. — Space Science - Svalbard Alexandra von der Esch

Grey sky streaked with long parallel dark cloud bands that converge above a snow-covered flat-topped mountain, with industrial buildings and masts at its foot. — Arctic Gravity waves onset Pablo Saavedra Garfias

Sorted stone circles on tundra: rings of grey gravel around patches of brown and green moss, with a glove for scale, and snowy mountains, a fjord and a small ship behind. — Sorted Stones at Ahlstrandhalvøya Lutz Beckebanze

Grassy tundra broken into raised polygonal mounds separated by snow-filled troughs, an eroded mound edge with a glove in front, and people in red walking towards snowy mountains. — (High-Center) Polygonal Tundra at Alkhornet Lutz Beckebanze

Close-up of bare round patches of fine grey mud and gravel framed by rims of dark crust and brown moss on stony ground, with a grey glove lying on one patch for scale. — Mud Boils at Calypsobyen Lutz Beckebanze

Lines of pale stones forming rings around dark, moss-covered centres on flat brown tundra, with a large snow-covered mountain under a blue sky behind. — Sorted Stones at Calypsobyen Lutz Beckebanze

Gravel ground patterned by a faint net of brown moss lines around stony patches, with a glove in front, sloping to a beach and blue bay with a ship and snowy peaks. — Sorted Stones at Gåshamna Lutz Beckebanze

Curving ridges of pale stones outlining dark polygons on flat tundra, with a tiny person in red walking towards a steep, snow-covered mountainside. — Sorted Stones at Gåshamna Lutz Beckebanze

Small yellow robotic boat with an antenna mast on green water in front of a towering white and blue glacier front, with a large red balloon carrying an instrument box floating above. — Robotics at the service of the polar science Angelo Odetti

Wide stretch of dark, rippled open water in front of a row of snow-covered flat-topped mountains glowing pink, under a clear blue and violet sky. — Ice-free Adventfjorden Erik Kuschel

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