Antarctic Maritime Explorations

Stunning views of vessels navigating icy waters in Antarctica, depicting cruises, expedition ships, and marine research activities.

Fishing boat off the coast of Ilulissat, West Greenland

Antarctica, Cuverville Island. Cruise ship and icebergs.

Penola Strait, Antarctica. Expedition vessel at anchor.

Chilean naval supply vessel, Almirante Oscar Viel, delivers Summer team, Gonzalez Videla Station, Waterboat Point, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Views of the U.S.-Canada fourth joint mission to map the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean in August and September 2011. The 2011 joint mission employed the flagship icebreaker from each country, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent (LSSL), with each ship performing different functions and one ship breaking ice for the other.

Greenland, Disko Bay, Ilulissat, elevated view of floating ice and fishing boat

Tour vessel in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica

Fishing boat off the coast of Ilulissat, West Greenland

Antarctica, Andvord Bay, Neko Harbour. Tourist expedition ship 'Endeavor' anchored amongst ice

Ship with iceberg, American Palmer Station, Antarctica

Ship crossing pack ice, Glacier, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

ANTARCTICA, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, PETERMANN ISLAND, US RESEARCH VESSEL LAURENCE M. GOULD

Sailboat in Paradise Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica

The ship Professor Molchanov near iceberg, Antarctica

South Atlantic Ocean, Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Gerlache Strait, Paradise Bay, Polar Star icebreaker cruise ship on sea, mountain in background

Exploration zodiac approaches expedition ship Antarctic Dream off Petermann Island, Antarctica

Tourist boat with naturally formed iceberg arch, American Palmer Station, Antarctica

'Polar Pioneer' cruise ship in fjord, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, july

Greenland, Ilulissat, UNESCO World Heritage Site Icefjord. A tourist boat navigates its way through the labyrinth of icebergs in the bay in front of Ilulissat.

Tourist boat in the Kangia Icefjord, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland, North America

Excursion boat with tourists. Ilulissat Icefjord at Disko Bay. The Icefjord is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site, Greenland. (Editorial Use Only)

NGS Endeavour cruise ship near glacier, Antarctica

Fishing boat returning to port through Icebergs calved from Jakobshavn Glacier floating in Disko Bay, Ilulissat, West Greenland

Greenland, Ilulissat, UNESCO World Heritage Site Icefjord. A tourist boat navigates its way through the labyrinth of icebergs in the bay in front of Ilulissat.

Pack and Icebergs seen since the ship Astrolabe Antartica

Ship in ice at Angmagssalik, Greenland, Polar Regions

Coastal freighter and the Lyngen Alps, Troms, arctic Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Tourists on Russian icebreaker breaking through pack ice, Antarctica

Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Bow of sailing yacht - with broken ice floe approaching Lemaire Passage

View of a polar research vessel, in the Antarctic.

Red boat in front of icebergs at the blue hour, Icefjord, UNESCO World Natural Heritage, Disko Bay, Ilulissat, West Greenland, Greenland, North America

Mv Skorpios In Front Of The San Rafael Glacier, Laguna San Rafael National Park, Aysen Region, Chile

Little boat between the icebergs of the Ilulissat Icefjord, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Western Greenland, Denmark, Polar Regions

Tourist expedition ship at Almirante Brown Station (Argentina).

small boat near big icebergs from aerial point of view

Antarctic Peninsula, iceberg from sailboat

Tourist boat with iceberg, American Palmer Station, Antarctica

Cruise ship nears edge of glacier, southeast Alaska

Antarctica. Neko Harbor. Cruise ship in the harbor.

Ship in Antarctica

The cruise ship MS Rotterdam of Holland America Line in the Lemaire Channel in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Tourist expedition ship in front of Ronge Island

Boat at Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, also called kangia or Ilulissat Kangerlua at Disko Bay. Greenland, Denmark (Editorial Use Only)

Ship on ice, Snow Hill Island, Antarctica

Red Fishing Boat in Ilulissat Icefjrod Ilulissat, Greenland - July 7, 2018: A red fishing boat sailing in between icebergs on Ilulissat Icefjord. Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxFoerstnerx 16793801

Sailboat seen through sea arch in iceberg, Gerlache Strait, Antarctica

Antarctic Dream ship, Neko Harbor, Gerlache strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica

Norway. Svalbard Islands. Spitsbergen Island. Sailing Ship

Rigged tourist ship Europa in heavy pack ice beneath Mount Scott, Penola Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica

Antarctica, Antarctic Penninsula. Paradise Harbour, Brown Station aka Almirante Brown. Silversea expedition ship, Prince Albert II in front of glacier.

sailboat with red sails sailing between huge icebergs

Harbor with typical fishing boats between icebergs. Small town of Uummannaq in northwest Greenland, Denmark (Editorial Use Only)

Tourist boat with naturally formed iceberg arch, American Palmer Station, Antarctica

Ship among the icebergs that have broken off the Sermeq Kujalleq ice sheet, Ilulissat, Qaasuitsup, Greenland.

Tourist ship and ice floe in Hornsund, Spitsbergen, Norway, Europe

Fishing boats entering the harbor. Town of Uummannaq, northwest Greenland, located on an island in the Uummannaq Fjord System. (Editorial Use Only)

ANTARCTICA, WEDDELL SEA, ICEBREAKER KAPITAN KHLEBNIKOV PARKED IN FAST ICE, TOURISTS ON ICE, BOW

Little boat between the icebergs of the Ilulissat Icefjord, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Western Greenland, Denmark, Polar Regions

Cruise ship in the glaciers and icebergs, Port Lockroy research station, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Antarctica, Antarctic Sound and Hope Bay, expedition ship the Corinthian III is dwarfed by the massive bulk of tabular icebergs littering Antartic Sound

The cruise ship World Discoverer at anchor in Port Lockroy, once a Second World War British Station, now a post office, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic...

A man hangs off the edge of a boat hoping to pull in large chunks of glacier ice off the coast of Whittier, Alaska.

Boat in The Gullet in Antarctica

Harbor with typical fishing boats between icebergs. Small town of Uummannaq in northwest Greenland, Denmark (Editorial Use Only)

Boat in drifting ice in the Arctic Ocean, Nordaustland, Svalbard, Norway

sailboat with red sails sailing between huge icebergs

Ice breaker surrounded by ice, Nunavut, Canada, North America, America

An iceberg as viewed from the bow of the RRS Ernest Shackleton a few days before the BARREL team reached Halley Research Station in Antarctica. This research vessel regularly carries scientists and supplies to Halley.

Almirante Brown station (Argentina)

Tourist boat in the Kangia Icefjord, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland, North America

Red research vessel in front of iceberg with LOch, July, Ilulissat, Disko Bay, Greenland, Denmark, North America

Greenland, Uummannaq, Cruise ship among icebergs in the Uummannaq fjord

small sailboat near big icebergs from aerial point of view

Fishing Boat travelling between melting icebergs and ice floes in Arctic ocean Summer Ilulissat Icefjord Unesco World Heritage Site, Jakobshavn, Western Greenland, Greenland, Denmark Date:

Argentina, Patagonia, Rear view of boat at Perito Moreno Glacier

Svalbard, Norway. Rembrandt sailboat. (Editorial Use Only)

Russia, Siberian Arctic, Powered icebreaker 'Sovetskiy Soyuz'

Sailboat seen through sea arch in iceberg, Gerlache Strait, Antarctica

Antarctica, Ross Island, McMurdo Station, Container ship Green Wave moored at ice pier (Editorial Usage Only)

frozen river boat in cold winter day frozen river boat in cold winter day in Moscow, Russia Copyright: xZoonar.com/VVxVoennyyx 5038286

Aerial view of MV Ortelius ice-strengthened cruise ship with passengers disembarked onto ice, Deception Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, December

Icebreaker in the pack ice Spitzbeg Norway

Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Paradise Harbour. MV Discovery in Paradise Harbour with surrounding peaks and icebergs. Antarctic Peninsula.

small sailboat near big icebergs from aerial point of view

A small outboard boat motors through icebergs in the Arctic Ocean on a calm evening, North Slope, Barrow, Arctic Alaska, USA, Summer

Rembrant Van Rijn, Schooner Ship, Scoresbysund, Greenland

Piper Super Cub plane, Kenai Mountains, Kachemak Bay State Park, Grewingk Glacier, Southcentral Alaska; Alaska, United States of America

Antarctica. Sailboat cruising by a glacier.

Cruise ship Blue glaciers, Damoy Point, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. Blue ice, compressed snow.

small sailboat near big icebergs from aerial point of view

Aerial view of the worlds largest nuclear icebreaker, ""NS 50 Lyet Pobyedi"" (50 years of Victory) on the way to the North Pole, Russian Arctic, July 2008

Amphibious vehicle swimming among icebergs, converted American LARC-5, tourists on board, Joekulsarlon glacial lake, Joekulsarlon, Iceland, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Europe

Fishing boat, Disko Bay, Greenland, Denmark.

Expedition vessel, expedition yacht MV Togo and jagged mountains along Magdalenefjorden, Albert I Land, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway, Europe

Coast Guard Icebreaker CCGS Kopit Hopson 1752, a Martha L. Black-class icebreaker. Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador

The tall ship, barquentine Antigua sailing with tourists along glacier at Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway, Europe

Inupiaq Whaler Traveling by Skidoo Over the Pack Ice, Chukchi Sea

Antarctica, Antarctic Penninsula, Antarctic Sound. Silversea's expedition ship the Prince Albert II, brash ice.

Views of the U.S.-Canada fourth joint mission to map the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean in August and September 2011. The 2011 joint mission employed the flagship icebreaker from each country, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent (LSSL), with each ship performing different functions and one ship breaking ice for the other.

January 6, 2012 - The USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) breaks ice around the Russian-flagged tanker Renda 250 miles south of Nome, Alaska. The Healy is the Coast Guard's only currently operating polar icebreaker.

Aerial of the Icebreaker "50 years of victory" on its way to the North Pole breaking through the ice, Arctic

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