Being onboard an icebreaker for the almost two weeks it took for us to make it to 90° North and back provided a lot of time for thought. Happily, it also brought beautiful Russian polar bears, some of which were curious enough about the ship to come close and check us out. As expected, all our bear sightings happened while we were in the ice around Franz Josef Land—the Russian archipelago is located on the continental shelf, a shallow area of high biological productivity that…
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