Svalbard (Spitzbergen) 2006

A superb ship-based trip around this high Arctic archipelago, 26th June - 3rd July.

Our Ship, the MV Professor Multanovskiy.	Monika Schillat, our trip leader.	Eider duck with ducklings	Eider duck, male with 2 females.
Longyearbyen	View over Isfjorden as we leave Longyearbyen.	Black-legged Kittiwake	Our ship anchored in Kongsfjorden.
Arctic Bell Heather	Moss Campion.	Long-tailed Skua	Long-tailed Skua
Long-tailed Duck	Purple Sandpiper	Purple Sandpiper	Arctic Fox, with nine pups.
Kongsbreen, glacier.	Bearded Seal	Atlantic Puffin, flying past our ship.	Northern Fulmar
One of our zodiacs getting close-up to Hamiltonbreen, glacier.	Atlantic Puffin	Black Guillemot	Black-legged Kittiwake
Black Guillemot	One of our zodiacs getting up close to Hamiltonbreen.	King Eider	A flock of adult male, 1S male and female King Eiders.
King Eider	Grey (Red) Phalarope	Minke Whale	King Eider
Barbecue night.	Brunnich's Guillemot	Brunnich's Guillemots	Brunnich's Guillemot
Glaucous Gull	Walruses	Walrus	A small glacier at Alkefjellet.
Palanderbukta.	Scenic in the Hinlopen Strait	Northern Fulmar	Northern coast of Spitzbergen
Scenic along the North-west coast of Spitzbergen.	Northern Fulmar	Little Auks at their nesting colony at Fugelsangen.	Little Auks
Little Auk	Little Auk	Little Auks	Little Auk
Polar Bears	Polar Bears	Northern Fulmar	Glaucous Gull
Late night revellers posing in the midnight sun.	Longyearbyen.	The pools near Longyearbyen airport.	Caribou (Reindeer)
Caribou (Reindeer)	Grey (Red) Phalarope.	Grey (Red) Phalaropes	Our last view of Longyearbyen as we headed home.