courtesy of Lisa M., a military wife who lived there with her
officer husband.
Churchill's landscape has a number of ecosystems and a wide
variety of lifeforms due to the fact that it is SUB-arctic. Because
of past glaciation, it also has very interesting geology. Lisa
sent me a number of really nice b&W landscapes, which can
be seen below. As always, click on the small pic to see a larger
version
In Summer, male bears like to hang out on rocky beaches like
this
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View of the harbor
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Krumholtz formation #1. This photo doesn't show so
clearly the typical flag-like, one-sided appearance of northern
treeline trees.
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Along the Churchill River. In summertime, (July) a pod of
Beluga Whales inhabits this water. The current is noticeably
strong (in my opinion, since I went swimming in it) and the water
itself, although unpolluted, is quite murky.
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In summer, this frozen pond would reflect the sky and resemble
sapphire. This area is really beautiful in the summertime. Too
bad about the bugs.
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Krumholtz Formation #2. Here you can see how the winds of
stripped off all branches except for those growing on the side
AWAY from the wind. This must be a somewhat protected location
since quite a few trees are growing together.
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I don't know what this formation is. If anyone does, please
get in touch with me so that I can properly identify it.
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Men in boats with beluga whales. I HOPE they are not hunting
them, but they might be. These creatures are SO lovely! They
are also one of the prime prey of the polar bears.
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This might be a beach or an expanse near a lake.
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This is some kind of swamp/muskeg area, I think. There is
a lake right near the Churchill Northern Studies Center. Its
approach looks like this. But it could be any other largish body
of water in the tundra. (There are many such pools, because the
glaciers carved out the land as they retreated, and due to permafrost,
any water that collects there cannot percolate down. In summer,
the tundra around Churchill is dotted with many beautiful sapphire-colored
lakes, ponds and pools.
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This looks too small to be the Churchill River. It is probably
some stream that got frozen.
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