# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CJsEkMlKsyn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11686743-natgeo-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/e02f735f62.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-01-06T03:34:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photo by acacia.johnson / At work under the full moon, Joe Kigutaq searches for polar bear tracks on the November sea ice near Arctic Bay, Nunavut. Twice a week, he drove his snowmobile 30 kilometers (about 20 miles) to a former mine site to check that bears hadn't broken into the facilities, and during the winter I lived with his family, he sometimes let me tag along. These drives were the first time I really came to grasp how the sea ice—a stark, lunar landscape often envisioned as desolate—is in fact a rich marine ecosystem, the living ocean just underfoot. Follow me at acacia.johnson for more stories from the Arctic and beyond. #arctic #seaice #nunavut #inuit

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seaice, arctic, nunavut, inuit

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