Seals of the Pack Ice

• Published in: Oryx
• Main Author: Lillie, Harry R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1955
• Subjects: Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Newfoundland; Barents Sea; White Sea; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Baffin; bearded seal; Harp Seal; Jan Mayen Island; Phoca groenlandica; ringed seal; Spitzbergen; walrus*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300038230; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0030605300038230

Around the seas of the far northern Atlantic coming under the influence of Arctic conditions lives, frequently on the wander, one of the most delightful of creatures, the harp seal or saddleback, Phoca groenlandica . Large communities migrate in the Newfoundland, Labrador, Baffin Land, Greenland sector; others through the area of Jan Mayen Island towards Spitzbergen. Gregarious for much of the time, they share their world of ice with the occasional bearded seal and ringed seal, walrus, and polar bear. The White Sea in northern European Russia is a great harp seal nursery, for an eastern community in the area of the Barents Sea.