Sea Ice and IcebergsFjords and open sea around Axel Heiberg Island show a great variety of phenomena related to sea ice. Some spectacular icebergs also occur. However, these are not particularly abundant as Iceberg Glacier is the only glacier which calves a significant number of them at the present time. | |||
 Last winter's sea ice is breaking up in Norwegian Bay, south of Axel Heiberg (July 1, 2008). |  Open water, loose floes of sea ice and pack ice in Norwegian Bay (July 1, 2008). |  Ice floes of various ages (one, two or more years) and turquoise meltwater ponds (Norwegian Bay, July 1, 2008). |  Older ice floe surrounded by one year old sea ice in Nansen Sound (1976). |
 Der Strand Fjord is still mostly ice-covered on July 1, 2008. Some open water is visible at the end of the fjord. |  A big iceberg (also visible in the previous photo) affects the drainage pattern of the surrounding sea ice (July 1, 2008). |  Photogenic pattern of melting sea ice in Expedition Fjord (July 3rd, 2008). |  Chaotic arrangement of ice floes and prominent delta in a small, unnamend inlet in southern Axel Heiberg (August 24th, 1977). |
 A linear crack in the sea ice of Expedition Fjord (July 3rd, 2008). |  Remarkable patterns formed by cracks in the sea ice, Expedition Fjord (July 3rd, 2008). |  Radiation and runoff from the warm ground causes the sea ice to first disappear along the coast (July 3rd, 2008). |  Raised beaches and a river delta on the north coast of Cornwallis Island (July 1, 2008). |
 Ice push along the shoreline of Index Finger Diapir Island has caused ridges in the beach gravel (July 2nd, 2008). Drageon Head Mountain in the background. |  Ice floes were pushed several meters inland during the previous winter. A log, possibly originating in northern Siberia, was deposited (July 2nd, 2008). |  Ice push (big gravel rideg on the right) and strand lines caused by the modest tides in Expedition Fjord (Index Finger Diapir Island, July 2nd, 2008). |  During a moment of calm, the mountains south of Expedition Fjord form mirror images while the remaining sea ice quietly melts away (Index Finger Diapir Island, July 2nd, 2008). |
 An air temperature inversion causes mirages over the sea ice of Expedition Fjord. The icebergs appear much taller than they are due to the optical effect (July 3rd, 2008). |  This isolated iceberg in Expedition Fjord carries a sign of "civilization": an abandond oil drum is lodged on its left side (July 3rd, 2008). |  Icebergs from Iceberg Glacier in Expedition Fjord contrast with the tilted, dark volcanic rocks in the background (July 3rd, 2008). |  Climbing an iceberg is not always easy, particularly without crampons (Expedition Fjord, spring 1976). |
| Photos Jürg Alean | |||