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globetrott Says: Bjornoya is uninhabited now but was an important place during the time of whale-hunting with big ships in 1850 - 19.. Bjornoja was a landmark we always passed shortly before we arrived in Spitzbergen / Svalbard.We never landed there unfortunately, as cruise-ships would...
globetrott Says: All of these polar-bear-pics were "shot" from the same bear in mid of August 2002 in Vienna.I simply erased all the landscape digitally, so you get the feeling there is some haze,fog or snow...At least it is my OWN pic, and NOT taken from a magazine or web-page ! These...
globetrott Says: I took this pic of a polar-bear in the zoo of Vienna / Schönbrunn ( one of the oldest zoos in the world ), as I unfortunately never met one of them during my various travels in Alaska,Spitzbergen and Norway... IF you ever get THAT close to a polar-bear, that you are able to...
one of the few inhabitants of Björnöja
globetrott Says: You better be careful and always have a rifle or gun handy, when taking a walk "on the wild side "Of course you would never kill the bear, but such a rifle might help you a lot to persuade the bear to search for some other " dinner ". Polar-bears look cute in a Zoo, but...
globetrott Says: I just have learned by David ( daarth), there is a permanent weather-station with 8 people on the island ...so at least the polar-bears wont feel so lonely on that remote island...
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I just have learned by David ( daarth), there is a permanent weather-station with 8 people on the island ...so at least the polar-bears wont feel so lonely on...
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