Icebergs | GRID-Arendal - Environmental Photo Library

HOME

About

Activities

Maps & Graphics

Photo Library

Publications

News & Features

Home >> Icebergs

Tag: Icebergs

Melting Sea Ice and stranded Icebergs, North-West Greenland The annual average extent of Arctic sea ice is now declining at a rate of -4.5 percent per decade relative to the 1979 to 2000 average and -4.6 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average.

By Peter Prokosch

Glacier Front on Mabel Island, Franz Josef Land/Russian Arctic National Park Russia in 2009 declared the High Arctic archipelago Franz Josef Land, including a former nature reserve in the same area as well as the Northern part of Novaya Zemlya, as "Russian Arctic National Park". Its total area is...

By Peter Prokosch

Shelf-ice pieces, Antarctic Peninsula An ice shelf is a thick platform of ice that forms at the grounding line of a glacier, where the glacier meets the coastline. Most freshwater on earth is bound in the huge ice shield covering almost entire Antarctica and...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Shelf iceberg, Antarctic Peninsula An ice shelf is a thick platform of ice that forms at the grounding line of a glacier, where the glacier meets the coastline. Most freshwater on earth is bound in the huge ice shield covering almost entire Antarctica and...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Antarctic icebergs; Antarctic peninsular Unlike the Arctic, which at its centre is an ocean, Antarctica is a landmass that is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. A permanent, massive ice sheet on Antarctica covers 98% of the continent and is containing the major ...

By Peter Prokosch

Adelie Penguin (Pygoscelis Adeliae) on iceberg, Antarctic Peninsula Adélie penguins are named after the wife of the French Antarctic explorer Dumont d'Urville. They breed in very large colonies, often 20,000 - 30,000 birds, sometimes more than 100,000, all around the Antarctic continent....

By Peter Prokosch

Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) on iceberg, Antarctic Peninsula Adélie penguins are named after the wife of the French Antarctic explorer Dumont d'Urville. They breed in very large colonies, often 20,000 - 30,000 birds, sometimes more than 100,000, all around the Antarctic continent....

By Peter Prokosch

Icebergs, Antarctic Peninsula Unlike the Arctic, which at its centre is an ocean, Antarctica is a landmass that is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. A permanent, massive ice sheet on Antarctica covers 98% of the continent and is containing the major ...

By Peter Prokosch

Adélie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on iceberg, Antarctic Peninsula Adélie penguins are named after the wife of the French Antarctic explorer Dumont d'Urville. They breed in very large colonies, often 20,000 - 30,000 birds, sometimes more than 100,000, all around the Antarctic continent....

By Peter Prokosch

Feedback form
Sitemap