Arctic photographs

As a child I could spend hours looking at photos of mountains and glaciers and reading about the Arctic and Antarctica. In the last few years I have had the opportunity to visit some of the places I dreamt about as a child, and of course I returned home with a lot of photos of my own. A few of them are collected here.

Jan Mayen     Finnmark     Padjelanta     Taymyr     Greenland     Svalbard, summer 2009     Pyramiden, Svalbard     Svalbard, winter 2009

I have a separate web page dedicated to geology photographies that are suitable for teaching purposes, you can find them here.
Mammoth tusk



Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen, landscape
Jan Mayen, view towards Nordlaguna from Gamle Metten
Jan Mayen, lava formation

More photos from Jan Mayen




Finnmark

Finnmark
Sampling for cosmogenic surface exposure dating in Finnmark
Finnmark

More photos from Finnmark




Padjelanta

Johanna Anjar in Padjelanta
View toward Áhkká (Akka) from the Padjelanta trail
Birch

More photos from Padjelanta




Taymyr

Expedition start, unloading the helicopter
Camp site in Taymyr
Field dinner during the Taymyr expedition

More photos from Taymyr




Greenland

Hiking on the Disko island, Greenland
Ice berg in midnight sun in the Icefjord, Greenland

More photos from Greenland




Svalbard

Summer 2009


Polarbear tracks
Iceberg on Spitsbergen
A dead reindeer has provided nutrients to the vegetation

More summer photos from Svalbard




Pyramiden


A rusty Soviet red star is left behind
Pyramiden mine, a ghost town on Svalbard
Pyramiden, Spitsbergen

More photos from Pyramiden, Svalbard




Svalbard

Winter 2009


Longyearbyen on Svalbard during winter
The road between the student houses in Nybyen and UNIS in Longyearbyen

More winter photos from Svalbard





I have also collected some geology photos in a separate gallery, you find them here.