🐻‍❄️ We‘re definitely in polar bear country now: the earlier sighting was actually 3, a mother and her two cubs. And just now we saw another bear! 🥰
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📸 by Lydia Schmidt 🙏

It was a glorious morning until this sea ice with a piece of #plastic drifted by. Sights like this - especially in such a remote part of our planet - will never cease to sadden me 😔.
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On the eve of #midsummer (summer solstice), we were greeted by a beautiful halo 🤩!
🧐 It is a ring or light that forms around the sun as sunlight refracts off ice crystals in a thin veil of cirrus clouds.
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📸 Lydia Schmidt