Polar Bears

Polar Bear, photo courtesy Energy, Mines and Resources Canada

Polar bears are extremely rare in this area as the sea straits between the Arctic Island tends to be frozen until late July. Seals, the main staple of polar bears have to live near open water or keep a water hole in the ice so they are none except from mid July to September when the ice breaks up. In the early summer, during the ice-covered period until mid July, The only seals I saw before the ice break up was in the typical melt pools next to icebergs in the frozen Otto Fiord [1].

Polar bear. Photograph by Wolfgang Weber.

Polar bear. Photograph by Wolfgang Weber.