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Torsvåg

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:09:12 -0400

Flyfoto Rein�y

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:09:04 -0400

Flyfoto fra Rein�ya i Nord Troms.

TROMVIK

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:48:51 -0500

pictures from tromvik

Kvalvåg

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:01:35 -0500

Polar bear

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:23:53 -0500

Norsk:
Isbj�rner kjenner ingen landegrenser. De vandrer over hele det islagte polhavet fra Russland til Alaska, fra Kanada til Gr�nnland og inn til Svalbards kyst. Forskerne har ikke funnet en endelig mal for telling av isbj�rn bestanden, men forskerne har estimert at bestanden muligens ligger mellom 22.000 og 25.000 dyr. Seksti prosent av disse isbj�rnene har tilholdsted i Kanada. Isbj�rner er ekstremt tilpasset til den arktiske vinteren. Temperaturen s� langt nord kan v�re ned mot minus 50 grader celsius over lengre tid.

English:
Polar bears are animals which know no boundaries. They pad across the ice from Russia to Alaska, from Canada to Greenland and onto Norway's Svalbard archipelago. No adequate census exists on which to base a worldwide population estimate, but biologists use a working figure of perhaps 22,000 to 25,000 bears with about sixty percent of those living in Canada. Polar bears are extremely adapted to the arctic. Winter temperatures in the far north often plunge to -40� F or -50� F and can stay that way for days or even weeks.

Flyfoto Karlsøy

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:00:18 -0500

Flyfoto fra Karlsøya

Troms�

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:00:18 -0500

Hamre

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:49:08 -0500

Antarctica

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:04:43 -0400

English:
Pictures from the Norwegian Antartic expedition 2000/2001.

Norsk:
Dette albumet inneholder bilder fra den Norske Antartiske ekspedisjonen 2000/2001.

Seals

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:03:48 -0400

Norsk:
De mest vanlige selartene rundt Svalbard er ringsel, storkobbe, steinkobbe og hvalross. Ringselen som er den minste av selartene holder til i fjordstr�k og ogs� ute i drivisen. Dette er ogs� den desidert mest vanlige selen p� Svalbard. Sporadisk observeres ogs� gr�nlandssel og klappmyss.Den betydeligste predatoren p� sel er isbj�rn. Andre mer sjeldne predatorer er hvalross, spekkhugger, h�kjerring, fjellrev og polarm�ke.

English:
The commonest species of seal around Svalbard are the ringed seal, the bearded seal, the common seal and the walrus. The ringed seal, which is the smallest species of seal, inhabits the fjords and drift-ice. This is the commonest seal on Svalbard. Harp seals and hooded seals are also occasionally observed. The most important predator is the polar bear. Other, rarer, predators are the walrus, the killer whale and the greenland shark.

Ice

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:23 -0400

English:
Arctic ice can be divided into two different types, classified by their method of formation. Icebergs are chunks of floating ice that have "calved" (broken off) from a glacier. Since they are formed from compacted snow, they are composed entirely of fresh water, like big floating ice cubes.The other kind of arctic ice is pack ice. This kind of ice is formed by the freezing of seawater. Seawater, because of the salt it contains, freezes in a different manner compared to fresh water. The density of seawater steadily increases as it cools, until reaching the freezing point of around -2�C (although this depends on how salty the water is). Mariners have adopted a number of different names for icebergs and pack ice. Anchor ice, blue ice, close pack ice, compact pack ice, consolidated pack ice, fast ice, fast-ice boundary, fast-ice edge, first-year ice, floe, floeberg, glacier ice, glaze, grease ice, grounded ice, growler, iceberg, ice-blink, icefoot, lead, nilas, nipped, old ice, open pack ice, pancake ice, polynya, rafted ice, rotten ice, sea ice, stranded ice. tabular iceberg and very close pack ice

Children

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:54:53 -0400

Walrus

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:54:07 -0400

Norsk:
Hvalrossen har en Arktis cirkumpolar utbredelse. Det finnes to underarter, atlanterhavs- og stillehavshvalrossen. Den totale bestand regnes for � v�re p� maksimalt 250.000 dyr, hvorav 80 % er stillehavshvalross. Hvalrossen er den st�rste selarten i norsk fauna, hannen kan bli opptil 1300 kg. Den lever hovedsaklig av bunndyr som muslinger og skjell. Hvalrossen foretrekker drivisomr�der, hvor den kan trekke seg opp av sj�en og hvile p� flakene. N�r isen er borte har hvalrossene faste liggeplasser, som de stadig vender tilbake til. Hvalrossene er sv�rt sosiale dyr og samles ofte i flokker. Den har f� fiender. I noen omr�der er spekkhuggerer en betydelig predator, ellers er det bare isbj�rner som kan ta enkelte dyr.

English:
The walrus has a circumpolar arctic distribution. There are two subspecies, the atlantic and the pacific walrus. The total population is estimated to be a maximum of 250,000 animals, where 80% er pacific walrus. The walrus is the largest species of seal in Norway, with males weighing up to 1300 kg. Walrus live mainly off bottom-living animals such as mussels and other shells. The walrus prefers drift-ice areas where it can drag itself up out of the sea and rest on the floes. After the ice has disappeared the walrus have fixed restplaces that they return to. Walrus are social animals and often collect in groups. They have few enemies. Killer whales are significant predators in some areas and polar bears take occasional animals.

Flyfoto Helg�y

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:48:23 -0400

Lofoten

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:38:36 -0400

Arctic birds

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:16:23 -0400

Norsk:
Rundt 30 forskjellige fugle arter hekker p� Svalbard i l�pet av den korte arktiske sommeren. De fleste artene er bare sommergjester, som utnytter energien fra den rike plante- og dyreplankton produksjonen i havomr�dene rundt Svalbard. Denne energien bruker de til formering og �kning av egne fettreserver.
En av de fuglene som trekker lengst er r�dnebbterna (Sterna paradisaea), den hekker cirkumpolart i arktisk. Og overvintrer i havomr�der p� den s�rlige halvkule, en del helt nede i Antarktis.

English:
Around 30 different species of bird nest on Spitzbergen during the short arctic summer. Most species are summer visitors, making the most of the energy from the rich phyto- and zooplankton production for reproduction and building up fat stores. One of the birds that migrates the furthest is the arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea). It nests in the arctic and overwinters in ocean regions in the southern hemisphere, some as far south as Antarctica.

Vannareid

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:54:33 -0400

Svalbard landscapes

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:44:54 -0400

Norsk:
Svalbard har en rekke storslagne og s�regne landskap. Over halvparten av �ygruppa er dekket av breer og evig sn�, og landskapene har blitt og blir fortsatt utformet av breer. Her finnes forrevne, alpine fjellandskap og nunatakker, store plat�breer og dalbresystemer, brede fjorder omkranset av fjellrekker og med breer som kalver rett i sj�en, vidstrakte dalf�rer med elve-avsetninger, elvesletter og v�tmarker, store strandflater med strandvoller og innsj�landskap.

English:
Spitzbergen has an array of spectacular and unusual landscapes. Over half of the island group is covered by glaciers and eternal snow, and the landscape has been, and is still being, shaped by glaciers. There are rugged alpine mountain landscape and nunataks, huge plateau glaciers and valley glacier systems, wide fjords surrounded by mountains and with glaciers that calve directly into the sea, wide passes with old riverbeds, river plains and wetlands, sweeping beaches with dunes, and lake landscapes.

Kvalshausvik

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:12:13 -0500

Fishery

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:55:32 -0400

English:
Pictures from fishery activities in North Norway.

Norsk:
Bilder fra fiskeri aktiviteter i Nord Norge.

Flyfoto Rebbenes�ya

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:01:02 -0500

Flyfoto fra Rebbenes�ya i Kars�y kommune.

Slettnes

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:35:34 -0500

Burøysund

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:48:44 -0500

Coast

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:35:27 -0500

English:
Landscape pictures from the coast of North Norway.

Norsk:
Landskapsbilder fra kysten av Nord Norge.

Skipsfjorden

Tue, 08 May 2007 03:15:49 -0400

Flyfoto Vannøy

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:37:28 -0500

Flybilder fra Vannøy i Nord-Troms.