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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sarah Marshall

A holiday in the Arctic that’s much more than just searching for polar bears

A brilliant-white creature, camouflaged by snow, rests on a solitary slab of ice in the Arctic Ocean, sparkling under the polar summer sun.

This majestic bird, the ivory gull, is a poignant symbol of an environment disappearing due to uncomfortably warm temperatures in the far north.

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