#arctic

[tropigar]

finished commission for a user on FA ^^

[todaysdocument]

Diary of Robert E. Peary, page 5

Collection XP: Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary Family CollectionSeries: North Pole Diaries

[double underline] C. Columbia [/double underline]

16 ret. m.      61 d. 

Wed-Thurs. Apr. 22-23

8.-a.m. Apr. 23

My life work is [ended - crossed out] accomplished. The thing which it was intended from the beginning that I should do, the thing which I believed could be done, & that I could do, I have done.

I have got the North Pole out of my system.

After 23 yrs. of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering & some risks, I have won the last, great, geographical prize, the North Pole, for the credit of the U.S., the Service to which I belong, myself, & my family.

My work is the finish, the cap & the climax, of 300 years of effort, loss of life, & expenditure of millions, by some of the best men of the civilized nations of

[jemichiart]

One of my pieces for the @polarlightszine featuring Arctic Terns - the birds that have the longest migration route, going from one pole to the other and back in a year. Impressive little guys!

You can get this gorgeous anthology about the Arctic and Antarctic life on https://polarlightszine.itch.io/ and support a good cause 💙

[ltwilliammowett]

The Norwegian research vessel Lance is stuck in the Arctic ice, 2015

[vintagecamping]

Bowfishing for arctic char near Cape Dorset, Baffin Island. Canada

1975

[aisling-saoirse]

Seljalandsdalur, Iceland - October 9th 2023

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever seen the Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri)? During breeding season, males sport green plumage in a pattern that's reminiscent of glasses. While this doesn't make their vision sharper, it does help males stand out from the crowd.For the rest of the year, they revert to mottled-brown plumage, similar to females, which have more subdued spectacles year-round. This duck is unique in that it lives in the frigid high Arctic. It sustains itself on a diet of mostly mollusks and crustaceans, diving to pluck prey from the ocean floor.

Photo: Olaf Oliviero Riemer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 

[kafkasapartment]

Endurance frozen in the ice, 1914-1917. Frank Hurley Platinum print.

The Endurance was an exploration ship that became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica in 1915. It was Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship was squeezed by the ice for ten months before being crushed, but the crew all survived.

[expressions-of-nature]

Arctic Mornings in Finland by Veli-Pekka Hännikäinen

[mapsontheweb]

The North Pole and the Arctic

[letmeinimafairy]

Back to the Arctic on labradorites, aurora borealis and a ship for @star-of-flame-eternal

[korbywo]

Whiteout's painting from Darkstalker: Legends (finished at last !!)

[lepetitdragonvert]

Arctic Encounter

Artist : Arthur Wardle (1864-1949)

[reality-detective]

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[illustratus]

Northern Lights by Anna Boberg