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Svalbard High Arctic Archipelago
78° to 80° North - 3 to 13 July 2007 |
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Svalbard Page 2. Scroll down for
10 photos. |
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Adult Ivory Gull on Sperm Whale
carcass (same dead whale as 2006) at Bourbonhamma. 9 July 2007. |
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Adult
Ivory Gulls congregate at a food source such as this whale carcass.
9 July 2007 |
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Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus
mutus hyperboreus is a subspecies endemic to Svalbard.
Longyearbyen, 13 July 2007. |
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Atlantic Puffins at Worlseyneset on
11 July 2007 |
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Red-throated Loon on nest at
Worsleynesset. 11 July 2007. |
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Arctic tern and chick in Ny-Alesund,
world's most northerly settlement. 12 July 2007. |
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Leucistic Black-legged Kittiwake,
lacks normal pigmentation. Diskobukta, 7 July 2007. |
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Black-legged
Kittiwake colony in canyon at Diskobukta holds about 6000 pairs. 7
July 2007. |
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Red Phalarope, a
shorebird.that breeds in the High Arctic. |
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About 100,000 Dovekies (Little Auk)
breed in large cliff colony near Polish Research Station at
Isbjornhamner. 4 July 2007. |
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End of Svalbard 2. Go to
Svalbard 3 |
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