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# Scenes of Polar Regions
# Observations in Polar Regions
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Scenes of Polar Regions
1. Antarctic (coastal regions)
2. Antarctic (inland area)
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Halo of the moon | Dome Fuji Station | Transportation by snow vehicles on Antarctic ice sheet |
Aurora australis |
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Yukimarimo | Dome Fuji Station, East Antarctica |
3. Arctic region (Greenland Ice Sheet)
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Ablation area of Greenland Ice sheet | Blue lakes | Ice core laboratory in snow pit |
Unnamed glacier from Greenland Ice Sheet |
4. Arctic region (Svalbard)
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Optical phenomena around the sun | Spitsbergen island in snow and ice |
5. Altai (Russian Federation)
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Accumulation area of Sofiyskiy Glacier from its ablation area |
Sofiyskiy Glacier | Snow stratigraphy by double-pit method |
6. Kamchatcka (Russina Federation)
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Large lenticularis |
Mt.Klyuchevsky and Mt.Kamen from Ushkovsky ice cap |
7. European Alps
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Ogives on Mer de Glace, Alps |