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CLICK ON IMAGE FOR GALLERY OF ALL PHOTOS: The port call by USS New Mexico to this municipal harbor in Tromsø is the first of many NATO submarines to change crew and get supplies in the years to come. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
USS New Mexico surfaced early Monday morning outside Troms, northern Norway. Here sailing Lenangen en route to Tromsø. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
Norwegian military guards at the port of Tønsnes, some 10 kilometers north of Tromsø city center. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
Tønsnes port is a civilian municipal port in Tromsø with military guards during the visit of the American nuclear-powered submarine. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
During May 10 to 12, the port of Tønsnes is heavily guarded and there is a no-fly zone in a radius of 1 nautical mile. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
Fresh air for the crew for first time after weeks of underwater patrol. Here north of Tromsø Monday morning. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
Norwegian special navy forces dive near the port of Tønsnes to secure the waters before the arrival of the American nuclear submarine. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
The USS New Mexico (SSN 779) is of the Virginia class fast attack submarines. The 115 meters long vessel has a crew of 130 and is powered by one reactor. The sub was commissioned in 2010 as the sixth in its class, which so far consists of 19 vessels. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
The US submarine is escorted inshore by the Norwegian Coast Guard. Photo: Kystvakten
This is the first time an NATO nuclear-powered submarine makes port call to a civilian harbor in northern Norway. The guarding and security is comprehensive. In the future, Tønsnes port near Tromsø will have some 3 to 4 port calls by nuclear subs annually, the Norwegian Defense officials inform. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
The Virginia-class USS New Mexico. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
Tønsnes harbor just north of Tromsø is a civilian municipal harbor where Norway has given green light for NATO submarines to dock. Photo: Helene Sofie Thorkildsen/Forsvaret
Photo: Jonny Karlsen / Forsvaret
An ice sculpture of Russia's single aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov". Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
The snow village is rebuilt every winter in Kirovsk on the Kola Peninsula. Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Photo: Andrey Zolotkov
Diver makes ready for work in the freezing cold ice-covered water in the Beaufort Sea. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
Searching for the mooring on the surface of the sea-ice. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
Searching on the ice surface north in the Beaufort Sea for the mooring with the instrument with important climate data. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
Squadron superintendent Andreas Soløy makes ready for diving under the ice. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
The diver has a support team on the surface providing safety and handling. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
The mooring was found 20 meter from where the diver went into the water through the ice. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
Lieutenant Thomas Andersen cutting the ice where the mooring was found. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
Removing the ice to be able to lift the mooring out of the water. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
The buoy holding the mooring is visible after the ice is removed. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
Lifting the buoy onboard "KV Svalbard". Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
The buoy is safely onboard the deck. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
The mooring is lifted onboard "KV Svalbard" with instruments important to understand the temperature changes in the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
Photo: Norwegian Coast Guard
PHOTO GALLERY: In October and November 2020, the Norwegian Coast Guard ship "KV Svalbard" sailed a high-latitude voyage from the Norwegian Arctic to the Beaufort Sea north of Alaske to assist climate scientists recover three moorings with instruments that for a year had collected important data about sea temperatures under the Arctic ice cover.
Midnight sun over the enclosure where the reindeer are gathered as the work on marking the calves continues into the night. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Jukka Similä is a Law Research Professor with the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi. His research includes natural resources law, environmental protection and Arctic policy. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Pirita Näkkäläjärvi is Member of the Sámi Parliament and former editor of Yle’s Sámi-language news. Photo: Ville-Riiko Fofonoff / Sámi Parliament in Finland
Frederic Hauge is founder of the Bellona Foundation. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Minna Näkkäläjärvi wants a future without mining inside the grazing land and migration routes of the reindeer in the Enontekiö municipality. She has stated a petition against the mining and collected thousands of signatures in just a few weeks. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Electric car charger at Hotel Hullu Poro (Crazy Reindeer) in Levi, northern Finland. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Boliden Kevitsa near Sodankylä in Lapland is located south of the core Sámi area. Behind this gate is one of the biggest open-pit mines in Finland. The main products are nickel and copper concentrate and in addition to this also significant amounts of platinum, palladium, gold and cobolt. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The herders stay in these cabins on the banks of Lake Salvasjärvi in the Tarvantovaara wilderness area, some 230 km north of the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Reindeer in the Ergon/Erkuna siida in the Käsivarsi reindeer-herding cooperative are gathered in the enclosure when the calves are to be marked. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Cabins by Lake Salvasjärvi, some 230 km north of the Arctic Circle in Finland. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The black dots in the skies are not the photographer's dirty lens. They are all hungry mosquitoes. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Minna Näkkäläjärvi and Tuomas Siilasjoki say mining could cause contamination to the waterways. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Cloudberry flowers. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Norway-Finland border fence. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
View towards the Norwegian municipality of Kautokeino from the mountain plateau in the Tarvantovaara wilderness area on the Finnish side of the border. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
