An Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is hovering over a beach at Smeerenburg, Amsterdam Island in north-west Svalbard, a former whaling station originated with Danish and Dutch whalers in 1619.

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An Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is hovering over a beach at Smeerenburg, Amsterdam Island in north-west Svalbard, a former whaling station originated with Danish and Dutch whalers in 1619.

Copyright Wolfgang Kaehler


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