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Helicopter view of Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St. Laurent (left) and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (right) on the Arctic Ocean. The ships met in 2008 during a scientific expedition to map the Arctic seafloor. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Jessica K. Robertson.
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Helicopter view of Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St. Laurent (top) and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (bottom) on the Arctic Ocean. This rendezvous took place during a scientific expedition to map the extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Jessica K. Robertson.
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Sunset over Arctic Ocean sea ice. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Jessica K. Robertson.
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The early morning sun bursts through clouds over the Arctic Ocean in this view taken from atop the bridge over the bow of the USGC Healy. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Jonathan Wynn.
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Ice on the Arctic Ocean ice cap. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Debbie Hutchinson.
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The sun can turn the Arctic ice and waters golden. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Patrick Kelley.
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An adult female polar bear and her two cubs travel across the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean north of the Alaska coast. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Mike Lockhart.
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Adult polar bear walking across a recently overwashed barrier island during a large Arctic storm in September 2016. The barrier island is offshore of Barter Island on Alaska’s north coast. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Cordell Johnson.
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A polar bear pulls himself out of the ocean onto the sea ice. Photo courtesy of the US Geologic Survey/ Brian Battalie.
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