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214 viewsOpen water and thin ice are hard to see in the flat light and poor visibility.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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214 viewsTide cracks in the sea ice around grounded icebergs; the trail made by the front loader used to collect glacier ice for melting runs through the middle.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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212 viewsA gibbous moon glows over the ice.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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211 viewsAnother view out my window in the C-130 along the Western coast of Greenland.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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209 viewsJoelie performs string art.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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209 viewsIlkoo tries to teach me some string art.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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209 viewsThe sun gets lower on the journey back to Qaanaaq.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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205 viewsA stone inukshuk on the hillside above Qaanaaq is still in the shade as the first light of dawn catches the icebergs in the frozen fjord.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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204 viewsShari (right) and Lene (left) watch the dogs and sleds getting ready.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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204 viewsWe are forced to travel on the ice-foot at the edge of the land due to the thin ice.
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204 viewsJoelie drives Jens's dogs.
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204 viewsThis thin sea ice has buckled
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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