SVALBARD “Many Mount Fujis lie in a row along our coast to the south. As the distance increases, their sombre blackness seems to be lit up by a deep red light. They take on every shade from red to lilac, and all the colours have a glowing depth that is never found in the landscape at home, or at most only in some exquisite flowers. In the holy stillness, everything is lit by a supernatural brightness. Two gulls fly low and silent close by the hut toward the fiord. They are lit up by the red rays of the bright sun. Their magnificent broad wings are a deep pink in the turquoise sky.” — Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night View fullsize Brünnich's guillemots at midnight View fullsize Two young polar bears leaving their mother View fullsize Atlantic walrus View fullsize Arctic tern diving View fullsize The old LORAN antenna on Jan Mayen View fullsize Polar bear with his kill View fullsize Arctic fox cubs exploring View fullsize Polar bear on pack ice View fullsize Fog off Spitsbergen View fullsize Brünnich's guillemot View fullsize Iceberg textures View fullsize North coast of Spitsbergen View fullsize Into the pack ice View fullsize Bråsvellbreen's glacier front View fullsize Arctic tern View fullsize Innermost Hornsund View fullsize Noon at Smeerenburgfjord View fullsize A Black-legged kittiwake adds scale to a meltwater outflow at Monacobreen