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Quest Nature Tours
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High Arctic
Canada and Greenland, 14 to 25 August 2006
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Polar
Bear feasting on a dead Beluga Whale on 17 August 2006 |
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I thank Barry Griffiths
of
Quest Nature Tours
for inviting me to be a leader on this High Arctic Expedition Cruise
aboard the Akademik Ioffe from Resolute Bay in Nunavut across Baffin Bay to Qaanaaq in Greenland.
We returned to Resolute Bay via Pond Inlet. Highlights: 12 Polar Bears, about 36 Musk
Oxen, Arctic Foxes, 200 Beluga
Whales, Narwhals, Walrus, white morph
Gyrfalcon, 24 Ivory Gulls and more. |
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Scroll down for
three pages of photos |
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This
Polar Bear was on an ice flow near Croker Glacier, Devon Island. Photo 17 August. |
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Kayaking
near a Polar Bear going for a swim after feeding on dead fish. Photo
23 August. |
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These
discoloured bears were feeding on dead fish that had been trapped in a
lake. Photo 23 August. |
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Our
first zodiac cruise on 16 August took us to a bay with 200 Beluga
Whales. |
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Musk Oxen
in Greenland on 21 August. |
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Walrus on Devon
Island on 23 August. |
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Akademik Ioffe at Qaanaaq in Greenland. |
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