Ice Formations and Frozen Locations
Ice landscapes cover frozen lakes, ice caves, sea ice, and crystalline formations shaped by extreme cold, where light refracts through translucent surfaces in constantly shifting patterns.
Field notes
Locations marked by ice
A focused path through the atlas, tuned for one surreal visual motif instead of a continent or collection.
Nærøyfjord
The narrowest fjord in the world, where cliffs fall 1,700 metres to black water
Oymyakon
The coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth
Lofoten Islands
Dramatic peaks rise from the Arctic Ocean above fishing villages
Svalbard
An Arctic wilderness where polar bears outnumber people
Perito Moreno Glacier
A moving wall of ice 5 kilometres wide that advances into a lake
Deception Island
You can sail a ship into the crater of an active volcano
Lake Baikal
A 25-million-year-old lake holds a fifth of all fresh water on Earth
Mount Erebus
Earth's southernmost active volcano guards a permanent lava lake
Abraham Lake
Frozen methane bubbles suspended beneath alien ice
Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon
Icebergs calving into the Atlantic, one at a time
Mendenhall Ice Caves
Cathedral of melting blue
Blood Falls
A two-million-year-old wound in the ice
Silfra Rift
Touch two continents at once beneath the ice