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Jagged ridges and pinnacles of crevassed grey and bluish ice in the foreground, giving way to a flat white ice surface stretching to the horizon under a grey sky. — The edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet David Rippin

Black-and-white aerial view of a smooth ice sheet with chains of dark rocky peaks poking through the snow, and faint bands of crevasses in the distance. — Greenland from above David Rippin

People in red and blue clothing raising a tall weather station mast held by guy wires on a snowy plain, with a red twin-engine aircraft parked behind under a blue sky. — Erecting a tall automatic weather station high on the Antarctic Peninsula Andrew Elvidge

Meltwater stream winding in a deep meander through a channel carved in white glacier ice, its blue-tinted walls lined with dark dust and a bed of reddish gravel, under a grey sky. — A meander in the meltwater valley Julien Seguinot

Aerial view of a broad crevassed glacier flowing between dark mountains into a fjord, ending in an ice cliff above blue-green water with small floating ice pieces. — Bowdoin Glacier before calving Julien Seguinot

Instrument mast and cables with a coil of yellow rope on a ridge of glacier ice beside a deep blue crevasse, under a dark, swirling storm sky with dark hills on the horizon. — Monitoring longitudinal strain Julien Seguinot

Video of two long red tunnel tents and a smaller round tent on a flat snowfield, with snow drifting low across the surface under a partly cloudy sky. — Camping in the katabatic winds Helen Millman

Close-up of a grey-blue ice surface etched into a honeycomb pattern of small polygonal cells outlined by white ridges, deepest and darkest in the middle. — Honeycomb Ice, Antarctica Helen Millman

Large grey boulder streaked with thin white veins sitting in pale blue glassy ice, with smaller rocks around it and dark scree slopes and snow patches rising behind under a blue sky. — Quite an Aesthetically Pleasing Rock Helen Millman

Large flock of terns and gulls flying under a grey sky above a dark beach, with a rocky slope on the left and a glacier front and snowy mountains in the distance. — "A Flight of terns" Siobhan McDonald 2015 Siobhan McDonald

Red helicopter hovering over a white ice sheet, lowering a large drum on a long line to the ice, where two people wait nearby. — Heavy Machinery Tun Jan Young

Person in a red jacket swinging a sledgehammer down onto the snow, beside another person in red sitting at the door of a small tent on a sledge, on a bright ice plain. — Hammer time! Tarun Luthra

Red octagonal sign reading STOP on a leaning post at a snowy junction, with flat white snow stretching to the horizon under a pale pink and blue twilight sky. — End of the World André Nuber

Vast white ice sheet with a jagged, crevassed surface stretching to the horizon under a cloudy evening sky, with a lone person standing on a grassy ridge in front. — Greenland ice sheet Andrew Sole

Sea covered with broken plates of white pack ice beside a smooth snow-covered ice shelf, with a broad snowy volcano under wisps of cloud on the horizon. — Volcano Across the Sea Laura Kerber

Aerial view of a white ice surface crossed by many cracks, with a large turquoise pool where two cracks meet, a dark hole lower left and smaller blue pools scattered around. — Drained Supraglacial Lake Bed, Greenland Ian Joughin

Turquoise meltwater stream winding through a smooth curved channel cut into white ice, with pitted ice banks and a grey cloudy sky above a flat icy horizon. — Melt Stream, Greenland Ian Joughin

Deep canyon with smooth white ice walls holding a winding channel of blue water with floating ice blocks, under a blue sky with thin cloud. — Water Filled Canyon, Greenland Ian Joughin

Aerial view of a white, crevassed glacier tongue ending in a green lake, beside dark bare rock with a meltwater stream and small pools, under a stormy sky. — Wild Ice Matthias Vanmaercke

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