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Mount McKinley, Denali National Park, Alaska
The Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and contains Denali (Mount McKinley), with 6,194 m the highest mountain in North America. The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² are federally owned. The national preserve is 5,430 km², of which 5,278 km² are ...
By Peter Prokosch
Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus leucas), North of Thule, North-West Greenland
Belugas are gregarious and they form groups of up to 10 animals on average, although during the summer months, they can gather in the hundreds or even thousands in estuaries and shallow coastal areas. They are slow swimmers, but they can dive down to 700 m below the surface. They are opportunist ...
By Peter Prokosch
Thule Air Base, North-West Greenland
Thule Air Base is the U.S. Armed Forces' northernmost installation, surrounded by arctic environment offering spectacular scenery,including majestic icebergs in the North Star Bay. - On January 21, 1968, a US military plane with nuclear waepons crashed and burned on the ice near Thule Air Base. ...
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland
Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all as snow) that it is called a polar desert. It was not covered by glaciers during the m ...
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland
Scarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. -Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all a ...
By Peter Prokosch
Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), one day old, Thule, North-Westr Greenland
breeding habitat is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and coastal areas in Greenland and northwestern Europe. They nest on the ground either elevated on rocks or in lower damp location. The males makes several scrapes; the female choose one and lays 3 or 4 eggs.
By Peter Prokosch
Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), Thule, North-Westr Greenland
The breeding habitat of the Purple Sandpiper is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and coastal areas in Greenland and northwestern Europe. They nest on the ground either elevated on rocks or in lower damp location. The males makes several scrapes; the female choose one and lays 3 or ...
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland
Scarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. -Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all a ...
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland
Scarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. -Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all a ...
By Peter Prokosch
Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland
Scarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. -Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the world. Precipitation levels are so low (only about 25 to 200 mm per year, all a ...
By Peter Prokosch
Waterfall at the Glacier Front of the Greenland Ice Sheet, near Olrik Fjord, North-West Greenland
The Greenland ice sheet, the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years, contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced record melting in recent years and is likely to cont ...
By Peter Prokosch
Red Xanthoria Lichen, Olrik Fjord, North-West Greenland
Red lichens are found in the Arctic tundra breeding habitats of the red knot sandpiper. With their reddish breeding plumage the birds are difficult to recognize in the vast tundra areas.
By Peter Prokosch
Old Thule, abandoned village, North-West Greenland
In the winter of 1953 the United States expanded their airbase at Thule and forcibly relocated the population of Pituffik, Dundas, and Uummannaq 31 km (19 mi) to the north within four days during the height of the Cold War. The settlement was subsequently moved another 100 kilometers to the nort ...
By Peter Prokosch
Old Thule, abandoned village, North-West Greenland
In the winter of 1953 the United States expanded their airbase at Thule and forcibly relocated the population of Pituffik, Dundas, and Uummannaq 31 km (19 mi) to the north within four days during the height of the Cold War. The settlement was subsequently moved another 100 kilometers to the nort ...
By Peter Prokosch
Breeding habitat of Red Knots (Calidris canutus iskandica), Thule, Greenland
The Red Knot is breeding with 6 subspecies in the circumpolar high Arctic tundra. Calidris canutus islandica is breeding in the barren lands of North Greenland and North-East Canada. In the very short high Arctic summer the young knots benefits from the abundance of insects, such as big specime ...
By Peter Prokosch
One day old Red Knots (Calidris canutus iskandica), Thule, Greenland
The Red Knot is breeding with 6 subspecies in the circumpolar high Arctic tundra. Calidris canutus islandica is breeding in the barren lands of North Greenland and North-East Canada. In the very short high Arctic summer the young knots benefits from the abundance of insects, such as big specime ...
By Peter Prokosch
Red Knot (Calidris canutus iskandica) in breeding habitat, Thule, Greenland
The Red Knot is breeding with 6 subspecies in the circumpolar high Arctic tundra. Calidris canutus islandica is breeding in the barren lands of North Greenland and North-East Canada. In the very short high Arctic summer the young knots benefit from the abundance of insects, such as big specimen ...
By Peter Prokosch
Northern Clouded Yellow (Colias hecla) Caterpillar, Thule, North-West Greenland
The Northern Clouded Yellow or Hecla Sulphur (Colias hecla) is one of the very few butterfly species still to be found in Northern Greenland. In Europe, it is found in the northern part of Norway, Sweden and Finland up to heights of 900 m. Beside Greenland It is also found in Alaska, the Northwe ...
By Peter Prokosch
Northern Clouded Yellow (Colias hecla) Butterfly, Thule, North-West Greenland
The Northern Clouded Yellow or Hecla Sulphur (Colias hecla) is one of the very few butterfly species still to be found in Northern Greenland. In Europe, it is found in the northern part of Norway, Sweden and Finland up to heights of 900 m. Beside Greenland It is also found in Alaska, the Northwe ...
By Peter Prokosch
Greenland Ice Sheet, Floating at the Edge, West-Greenland
The Greenland ice sheet, the second largest ice mass in the world, consisting of layers of compressed snow from more than 100,000 years, contains in its ice today's most valuable record of past climates. The Greenland Ice Sheet has experienced record melting in recent years and is likely to cont ...
By Peter Prokosch
Fjord in between Ice-free West-Greenland
All towns and settlements of Greenland are situated along the ice-free coast, with the population being concentrated along the west coast. Significant parts of the hinterland at the central west coast are also ice-free (and snow free in summer)
By Peter Prokosch
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