Arctic Ice

Arctic Ice - The Arctic is much more than Polar Bears of course as there are Arctic Foxes, Svalbard Reindeer (long ago crossed over the ice hundreds of miles north from Norway), birds by the millions, several species of whales making their rounds, seals and sea lions and walruses (both Pacific and Atlantic) and ice. Glaciers from which icebergs break off, ice tongues sticking far out into the water, bergy bits (car or bus sized chunks of ice) all freshwater originating from the glaciers which represent millennia of snow accumulation, and many forms of sea ice from newly forming grease ice up to quite thick multi year ice, all of which is formed as sea water freezes at approximately 29 degrees Fahrenheit. Aboard ship we spend endless hours looking both for and at wildlife and ice.