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Caption: SVALBARD
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Caption: The Svalbard Archipelago is 600 miles from the North Pole. I went there in March 2011 to explore and take some pictures.
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Caption: During a snowmobile trip, we passed the Noorderlicht, a Dutch schooner frozen into the surface of Tempelfjord.
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Caption: Our trusty vehicles.
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Caption: A photo of our guide, taken with Polaroid Time Zero on an SX-70. The camera had to be kept inside my jacket to keep it from freezing.
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Caption: The abandoned Russian town of Pyramiden, the most northerly I've ever been, at 79°N.
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Caption: An abandoned building in Pyramiden. The town is named after Pyramid mountain which towers overhead.
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Caption: The Svalbard Global Seedvault was created to safely house the planet's plant life in seed form. It is high in the mountains so that it is protected from the dangers of rising sea levels which may occur over many centuries. It glows softly in the night.
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Caption: A weather monitoring radar station listens to the atmosphere.
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Caption: Close to the North Pole, the stars appear to spin horizontally, and auroras shimmer
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Caption: Last day. The aurora borealis captured on ancient ISO 50 Polaroid film using a Mamiya RZ67. There is nothing like taking home real photographs which you have suffered to make.