THE ARCTIC
During the the Summer of 2013, Blane De St. Croix participated in the first Summer Solstice Expedition to the high Arctic, organized by the Arctic Circle program. The expedition vessel, an ice-breaking tall ship, departed from Svalbard, Norway, and sailed just ten degrees from the North Pole. While in the Arctic waters, the participants—artists, writers, scientists, and educators—conducted on-site research and pursue creative activities.
Photographs
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- Anchored for the Evening in the Forg.
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- Sailing North.
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- Glacier approach.
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- Blane on an ice float.
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- Northern Spitsbergen. Blane on an iceberg.
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- Rainbow on land.
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- Northwest Spitsbergen.
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- Approach to the glacier.
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- The glacier.
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- Blane and the glacier.
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- Anchored in a bay for the evening.
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- Abandoned gypsum mine with a cargo boat.
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- Glacier studies from a Zodiac.
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- Floating ice in the Forg.
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- Birds nesting on cliffs I.
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- Birds nesting on cliffs II.
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- Cabin porthole.
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- Square rig of the sailing vessel Antigua.
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- Glacier in the northwest Spitsbergen.
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- Glacier in the northwest Spitsbergen.
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- Glacier in the northwest Spitsbergen. Land approach.
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- Glacier in the northwest Spitsbergen. Land approach.
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- Ice melt
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- Ice melt
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- Blomstrandhalvoya. Aboned marble mine.
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- Glacier study from the water.
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- En Plein Air, Magdalenafjord. Gravneset (Grave Nose).
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- Hike to the glacier.
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- Hike to the glacier.
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- Approach to the glacier from the side. Dead Ice.
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- Blane in Pyramidan.
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- Lenin statue in Pyramindin.
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- Seed Bank in Spitsbergen.
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- With helicopter on a mountain.
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- View from mountain top I.
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- View from mountain top II.
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- View from mountain top III.
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- View from mountain top IV.
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- Radar array in Longyearbyen.
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- Southwestern Spitsbergen. Aerial inland view.
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- Higher aerial view of the southwestern Spitsbergen region (detailed).
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- Higher aerial view of the southwestern Spitsbergen region (detailed).
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- Aerial view of the southwestern Spitsbergen Coastline, just north of the Arctic Circle.
Videos
Interview with Sasha, a Russian Tour Guide in Pyramindin, an abandoned Russian mining camp created as a utopian communist community.
Captain Joe, captain of the square rig icebreaker sailing vessel Antigua.
Interview with Inn Keeper Trond at Hotel 204 in Longyearbergen.
Aerial documentation and mountain top access outside Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen.
Sailing north toward the ice pack, the western coast of the Svalbard archipelago.
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