Sue Daly / Artic Cowrie (Trivia artica) English Channel, off the coast of Sark, Channel Islands, May

Roy Mangersnes / Photographer Ole Jorgen Liodden, with curious young Artic fox (Vulpes lagopus) investigating his camera, Svalbard, Norway

MYN / Denis Palanque / Artic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) juvenile, Aix les Bain, Savioe, France, January. meetyourneighbours.net project

Loic Poidevin / Artic fox (Vulpes lagopus) sitting on rock, Pribilof Island, Alaska, USA, July

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ritual objects carved from Walrus ivory (circa 1000 BC - 1000 AD) Bering Strait, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, 2004.

Eric Baccega / Truck on the ice road transporting fuel to the mines, Northwest Territories, Canada

Pete Oxford / Aleut boy holding Crested auklet shot for food, Little Diomede Aleut Community, Bering Sea, Alaska, USA 1999

Staffan Widstrand / Herd of Muskox {Ovibos moschatus} Ellesmere Island, Canada