Northern Lights Destinations: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
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Greenland: Ice, Landscapes & Polar Stories
Greenland’s ice and surrounding landscapes invite questions as well as photographs. Explore stories about the places shown, the observations behind scientific reports and the limits of a single image. Related Arctic and glacier collections help connect an individual scene with a wider setting without treating every polar landscape as interchangeable.
Ten Fun Winter Sports to Try Beyond Skiing, from Sledging to Luge
Skiing is only the start of what snow and ice can offer. From a floodlit Swiss sled run to a dog team in Greenland, these ten winter sports...
Daniel Kordan’s Greenland: Icebergs and Towns of Disko Bay by Yacht
Towering icebergs, a blue ice arch, brightly painted wooden houses on green slopes and an evening sky glowing red over still water: Daniel ...
Aurora Borealis over Greenland and Iceland: Joe Capra’s Two Lands
Filmmaker Joe Capra, who works as Scientifantastic, travelled to Greenland and Iceland to film the Arctic aurora at the peak of the Sun’s 1...
Two Lands: Joe Capra's 4K Time-Lapse of Greenland and Iceland
Northern lights, glaciers, the icebergs of Disko Bay and Iceland's Kirkjufell all feature in Two Lands – Greenland | Iceland is a 4K t...
Chasing Ice: The Ilulissat Glacier Calving, Largest Ever Filmed
On 28 May 2008, Adam LeWinter and Jeff Orlowski of the Extreme Ice Survey filmed the front of Greenland's Ilulissat Glacier break apart ...
Zaria Forman's Pastel Icebergs: Chasing the Light in Greenland
At first glance these are photographs of Greenland's icebergs: blue-white towers of ice floating on still, dark water. Look closer and ...
Greenland’s Blue River: Meltwater Channels on the Petermann Glacier
Every summer, rivers of startling turquoise water carve their way across the white surface of Greenland’s ice. They twist through ice banks...
Greenland’s Hidden Mega-Canyon: 750 km Beneath the Ice Sheet
Under two kilometres of ice in the middle of Greenland lies a canyon at least 750 kilometres long and up to 800 metres deep. A team led by P...
Chasing Ice: The Record Ilulissat Glacier Calving Filmed in Greenland
On 28 May 2008, Adam LeWinter and Jeff Orlowski of the Extreme Ice Survey watched a piece of Greenland’s Ilulissat Glacier the size of a ci...