Yukon River spring breakup

Four images of an increasingly-less-frozen stretch of the Yukon River

Photo By/Credit

Keith Ramos/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

05/11/2012

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

Each spring the frozen rivers of Alaska melt, shift, break up and once again flow as waterways. The images above show stages of the Yukon River breakup over several days in mid-May 2012.

Ecosystem

River/stream

Tundra

Subject tags

Rivers and streams

Tundra

Wildlife refuges