Land of the pingos
The midnight sun shines on the coast of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula in Canada's Northwest Territories. The landscape is dotted with pingos, dome-shaped hills formed in a permafrost area when the pressure of freezing groundwater pushes up a layer of frozen ground. In the left foreground, you can see tundra polygons, a natural pattern of geometric shapes formed in permafrost areas. Nearby is a young pingo. In the right distance is the Inuvialuit community of Tuktoyaktuk, the end of the road to the Arctic Ocean. The photo is a drone panorama stitched from 6 vertical images.
Land of the pingos
The midnight sun shines on the coast of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula in Canada's Northwest Territories. The landscape is dotted with pingos, dome-shaped hills formed in a permafrost area when the pressure of freezing groundwater pushes up a layer of frozen ground. In the left foreground, you can see tundra polygons, a natural pattern of geometric shapes formed in permafrost areas. Nearby is a young pingo. In the right distance is the Inuvialuit community of Tuktoyaktuk, the end of the road to the Arctic Ocean. The photo is a drone panorama stitched from 6 vertical images.