Wildest Arctic

The Arctic Circle is one of the last great wildernesses on earth, where the ocean turns to ice, and land and sea merge into one. This is a place where animals inspire myths and legends, and the species that survive here have evolved to live above and beneath the ice. This is the land of the midnight sun….

Containing one third of the world’s trees, the frozen forests of the Taiga truly are the “lungs of the planet”. This great forest spans right around the globe: across North America, Scandinavia, and extending across Siberia to the shores of the Pacific, sheltering some of the Earth’s most majestic animals, and some of its most secretive.

Covering 1/5th of the earth’s surface, the arctic tundra is one of the coldest and driest places on the planet. The piercing sub-zero temperatures and powerful winds of the arctic tundra challenges even the hardest of creatures. Life here must adapt or perish…

Iceland is a land born out of fire, sculpted by ice. This unique island is home to some of the planet’s rarest and most spectacular creatures and it harbours some of the most extreme environments on Earth. On the highly volcanic Mid Atlantic Ridge, new land is forged every day in Iceland’s heart of fire.