Images Dated 21st October 2012

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) tagged female with wet matted fur walks over newly forming pack ice

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) tagged female with wet matted fur walks over newly forming pack ice, Beaufort Sea, offshore from the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

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Alaska, Bears, Carnivores, Cold, Endangered, Females, Mammals, Marine, Ursidae, Ursus Maritimus, Usa, Vertebrates, Vulnerable

Landscape with eroded rocks in Capital Reef National Park, Utah, USA

Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles (97 km) long on its north-south axis but an average of just 6 miles (9.7 km) wide. The park was named for a line of cliffs of white Navajo Sandstone with dome formations-similar to the white domes often placed on capitol buildings-that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. The local word reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel

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British and French Amphibious Assault Craft on Ex Corsican Lion

British and French amphibious assault craft take part in Exercise Corsican Lion.
Elements of 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines conducted a WADER training package on the French Island of Corsica.
The exercise saw British servicemen, train alongside their French counterparts in amphibious landing techniques from British craft and French craft. The training took place off Solenzaro Beach in Corsica as part of Exercise Corsican Lion.
Corsican Lion provides the first major naval exercise that examines and tests the Maritime element of the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force by demonstrating its ability to project power from the sea

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