At last it’s time for #SuperbOwl Sunday. Here is a juvenile Snowy Owl takes off. #Nunavut #arctic #WildlifePhotography #Birding
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Last one for #SuperbOwl Sunday. Owls (and other Arctic Predators, avian and mammal) use rises and hummocks to scan for prey, using the same spots year after year. Their waste and remains of prey fertilize the spot and the plants grow taller there than the surrounding tundra. Here a juvenile Snowy peers at me from such a spot. #Nunavut #Arctic #WildlifePhotography #Birding
Throwback to summer. I’ve applied for some funding to upgrade my drone so here’s a shot with my Mavic 2 Pro. A panorama of Qajuutinnguaq down Adams Sound from home. #Nunavut #Arctic #LandscapePhotography #Drone
In an ATV trip to Innaaluup Nuvua last summer we stopped at the top of this magnificent valley above Innaarulaalikuluk and Admiralty Inlet. #Nunavut #Arctic #LandscapePhotography
Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen was born #OTD in 1879.
He went on his first expedition in 1902–1904, known as The Danish Literary Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture and traditions. Rasmussen is best known for leading the Thule Expeditions, a series of seven major expeditions between 1912 and 1933.
Books by Knud Rasmussen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33593
🚨 Sea ice across the Hudson Bay (Canada) is observing a historic spring with record early losses of #Arctic sea ice...
Each line represents one year from 1979 (purple) to 2023 (white). 2024 is in red. Data from the NSIDC using the passive microwave satellite record.
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was born #OTD in 1872.
Following a failed attempt in 1918 to reach the North Pole by traversing the Northeast Passage on the ship Maud, Amundsen began planning for an aerial expedition instead. On 12 May 1926, Amundsen & 15 other men in the airship Norge became the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole. He disappeared in June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission for the airship Italia in the Arctic.
Alaska and vicinity seasonal 50-year temperature changes (ºF) updated through autumn 2024, all in one graphic for your convenience. A whole lot of warming going on. #Alaska #ClimateChange #akwx #Arctic @Climatologist49
Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889–1982)—author, poet, film-maker, botanist, #arctic explorer—was born #OTD, 30 May. A 🎂 🧵
WalkHighlands shares an extract from PEAK BEYOND PEAK, describing how she tackled the Corrieyairack Pass between the #Cairngorms & Loch Ness
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When the North and South polar regions get together ...
#Tariffs #USA #PolarAlliance #Penguins #PolarBears #Seals #Orca #Arctic #Antarctic #HandsOff
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#Greenland handed a 30-year #mining permit to a Danish-French mining group aiming to extract a moon-like rock that could offer a #climate-friendly alternative in aluminium production.
The #Arctic island rich in #minerals, #oil & #NaturalGas, & long seen as a potential resource frontier, has drawn international attention since #Trump expressed an interest in *purchasing* [conquering] it earlier this year.
#geopolitics #Denmark #France #US
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/greenland-gives-danish-french-group-permit-mine-rock-with-green-potential-wake-2025-05-21/