Svalbard

For me, among the most spectacular sights in the Arctic are calving glaciers. Here, large chunks of the terminal face of Lilliehöökbreen in Spitsbergen fall into the sea, startling a flock of Kittiwakes into flight.
The sound is immense, and always reaches you a second or two after the initial impact.

A shapely iceberg floats in front of the glacier front it recently calved from in Svalbard.

A deluge of meltwater pours out of a fissure in the calving face of this massive ice wall.

Kittiwakes rest on an ice floe before a glacier front in Svalbard.

A broad crevassed glacier flows around a mountain in Svalbard.

A meltwater waterfall emerges from the ice and has formed an arch-shaped fracture pattern in the glacier.

Mountains and glaciers rise from the mist on a calm morning in Isbukta, Svalbard.

The ice cap on Nordaustland flows to the sea on a calm and clear day.

An arctic tern regards the photographer while perched on a rock with ice behind it.

Mountains emerge from the fog at Eastbukta on Spitsbergen.

Meltwater thunders into the sea from the icewall at Brasvellbreen, Svalbard.

Dramatic light on a glacier in Spitsbergen.

Jagged mountains rise above a glacier in the mist in Svalbard.

Meltwater pours from the "mouth" of a trapped ice giant in a glacier in Svalbard.