979-7378 - Blizzard conditions cause the ocean's surface to begin to freeze in Dahlmann Bay, Antarctica, Southern Ocean. MORE INFO First signs of grease ice as the surface of the sea begins to freeze.
979-7047 - Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7031 - Brown Bear sow (Ursus arctos) with coy (cubs-of-year) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7008 - Adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding along the west side of Chatham Strait in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7036 - Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7105 - Southern Giant Petrels (Macronectes giganteus) attacking and eventually killing an imperial rock shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps) on a tiny offshore reef in the Beagle Channel outside Ushuaia, Argentina
979-7438 - Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking, then killing and eating an adult gentoo penguin in Paradise Bay, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7560 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer enjoy a hot asado sandwich prepared by staff at BBQ on an ice floe near Adelaide Island, Antarctica
979-7773 - Reflections in calm water photographed from the Lindblad Expedition Ship National Geographic Explorer operating in Antarctica, Southern Ocean.
979-7457 - Private sailboats tied up at Alice Creek near Jougla Point, in Port Lockroy at the western end of Wiencke Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7037 - Brown Bear cub (Ursus arctos) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7363 - Full moon (plus 1 day) rising over icebergs in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. MORE INFO This moonrise occurred on January 1, 2010, the night after the blue moon full of December 31, 2009.
979-7032 - Brown Bear sow (Ursus arctos) with coy (cubs-of-year) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7355 - Snow covering the ash and mud slides at Whalers Bay inside of the caldera at Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7334 - The Lindblad Expeditions ship National Geographic Explorer pushes through ice in Crystal Sound, south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7038 - Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7790 - Adult Grey-headed Albatross, (Thalassarche chrysostoma) on the wing in the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean