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• Part 1: The Epic Begins
  
  
• Part 2: The Team Has Assembled
  
  
• Part 3: First Day on the Ice
  
  
• Part 4: Morning with the Moon and Sun
  
  
• Part 5: The Most Stunning Landscape Available on Earth
  
  
• Part 6: Eighty-one Degrees
  
  
• Part 7: About Those Bears
  
  
• Part 8: Sailing Through the Ice Pack
  
  
• Part 9: Three Amazing Artists
  
  
• Part 10: He Walked Right Up to the Ship...
  
  
• Part 11: Updates from September 5
  
  
• Part 12: Updates from September 6
  
  
• Part 13: Wednesday Evening, September 9
  
  
• Part 14: Sunset in Greenland
  
  
• Part 15: Saturday Night with David Doubilet and Jen Hayes
  
  
• Part 16: An Image That Will Forever Be Impressed Upon Our Collective Memories
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• Part 17: Farewell to a Successful Journey

Part 17: Farewell to a Successful Journey

Posted: September 19, 2015

​We are back…from a successful Ocean Geographic Elysium Artists for the Arctic expedition! We have seen the splendour of our planet in its immense glory, breatless phenomenon of snow and ancient ice calving away in time of a warming climate. We have seen rain in a supposedly dry environment. We have seen animals struggling to survive in vanishing ice. We have seen global warming in motion. The task ahead is to interpret our vision to inspire change, to preserve the Arctic, to preserve our very own existence.

Polar bears at play on arctic ice.

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