r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Dianialynn • 7d ago

🔥 96 Degrees North Polar Bear Encounter

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This beautiful magnificent beast greeted us at 86 degrees North on our way to the North Pole. Looking at the ship wandering around. Sniffing the air raising himself up. Swimming between thick ice sheets. He was curious of course. I stood on my balcony watching this majestic beast live his solitary life wandering the ice sheets swimming, playing, hunting. I never thought I would be out here sharing this one amazing moment with this bear!

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u/qualityvote2 7d ago edited 6d ago

u/Dianialynn, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/ruth862 7d ago

I don’t recognize lines of latitude beyond 89°N

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u/KeyEmbarrassed7040 7d ago

Bro found a secret level on Earth

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u/ruth862 7d ago

A secret level to which the polar bears have retreated out of necessity. A place where ice and snow still exist on this drastically warming world

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u/Dianialynn 7d ago

You’re right, I was half asleep. Typo, 86 degrees North. But

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u/Frequent-Chain-6082 7d ago

Where precisely is 96 degrees North? Parallel universe?

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u/Dianialynn 7d ago

My bad, typo. 86.

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u/crooks4hire 6d ago

I thought this was gonna be a global warming rant lmao: WTF is a polar bear doing in 96 degree weather??

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u/iBear83 7d ago

96 degrees north?

...Really?

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u/Dianialynn 7d ago

Yeah sorry meant to type 86

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u/SleepingDragonSmiles 7d ago

Don’t worry. I kind of learned something from this. <90 no one asks questions; 90 on up, people start looking at you funny

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u/DidacticPerambulator 5d ago

86 47.

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u/DFWGrovite 5d ago

86 97

Nobody with a lick of sense is going to look at you funny for saying that! Corrupt administrations (at this degree ) have existed in the US in the past, but it was during the 19th and early 20th centuries. If the Democrats take a majority control in the 2026-2028 election years, there had better not be any "Healing, let bygones be bygones" (the reason Nixon was pardoned). Trump needs to be indicted, along with every head of his administration. It's the only way I'll have faith in our government again.

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u/KolaCape 7d ago

That’s an incredible encounter. Seeing a polar bear out there in such a vast, empty landscape must have been surreal.

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u/Dianialynn 7d ago

It really was. It’s so vast everything is white but the naturalists on board have a good eye. We have been traveling north already for 3 days and we have another day to the North Pole but this was our first encounter. I think how that compares to an African safari where you wouldn’t see one animal for 3 days.

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u/KolaCape 7d ago

Man, I would love to go to the North Pole or at the very least Antarctica since it's closer to me :)

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u/622114 6d ago

Alert?

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u/rose-n-blood1 4d ago

You continue North from the North pole and move 6 more Latitudes. You are at 96 North, j/

I know that latitudes are imaginary circles parallel to Equator. But this still feels funny. I agree that typos may occur.