A Polar bear at the abandoned meteorological station on Kolyuchin Island. Photo / Dmitry Kokh, Instagram
On an island between Russia and Alaska, in the abandoned buildings of a meteorological station, polar bears have taken over.
In September Russian photographer Dmitry Kokh boarded a yacht and sailed 2,000kmm across the Chukchi Sea, through some of the most Eastern parts of the Russian Arctic.
Initially, Kokh set
out to photograph Wrangel Island, which was notorious for its bear population. However, he would discover the massive arctic animals in a far less likely location.
"Nature [is] always sending you something when you least expect it," Kokh said of the discovery.
"When we passed through the Kolyuchin Island near the Northern coast of Chukotka, we saw some movements in the windows of the abandoned windows there and when we got close — those were bears!"
