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Looking into the sun - not the best angle.
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I shot photos that continued to the right of this panorama to include the town of Jenner, California, however due to a mixup during uploading I deleted most of the town of Jenner. D'oh!
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The Kapitan Khlebnikov was built in Finland for the Soviet Union in 1981. She is a Kapitan Sorokin class icebreaker, and she uses diesel fuel. Her main engines produce 24.200 horsepower. In her early days she serviced ports in Northern Russia and Siberia, maintaining supplies during the winter months. Since her ref...
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Wilczek Island is located in the southeast corner of Franz Josef Land, a rocky archipelago in the Barents Sea north of mainland Russia. The island, like most of the neighboring islands is uninhabited. On November 1, 1873, it was the site of the first landing by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition which disco...
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With its bright white exterior and lapis blue roof, this is a very beautiful church. There was a wedding in progress the day that we visited Murmansk, so I did not go inside.
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This rocky island was the site of the first landing of Austrio-Hungarian North Polar Expedition in 1873.
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Sedova Station is located in Tikhaya Bay on Hooker Island in Franz Josef Land. Franz Josef Land is a small, isolated archipelago located about 800 miles north of mainland Russia. Check out our ship, The 50 Years of Victory, which sailed into the bay unexpectedly when the weather changed. There was concern that the ...
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Here we are very near to the North Pole, having a party on the drifting ice . The passengers and crew were in a festive mood despite our awakening for the arrival at the Pole in the middle of last night. The sky was clear with a brilliant sun warming us as we ventured off the ship. You might see some people dressed in ...
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This rocky, flat island is located among the middle islands in Franz Josef Land in a subgroup called Zichy Land. It was named after William Ziegler who lead the Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition in the beginning of the 20th Century. There was once an Austrian observing site, Payer-Weyprecht, on the island. We f...
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This is Ziegler Island as we saw it from the bridge deck of the 50 Years of Victory. This was a rather flat island with little snow cover on this late July morning, On our way to the island we encountered a polar bear waiting by a seal hole. We noticed hundreds of seals on the ice around the island. The seals ...
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