Welcome to the new and improved Arctic Surf Blog! Maybe it doesn’t seem any different to you, or maybe you’ve noticed some changes to the sidebar. In the last week all articles have been organized into a ‘Table Of Contents’, sorted by region. Now you can quickly and effortlessly read about any locations you are interested in or forgot about. The ‘Files’ section contains paperwork and documents about this organization, as well as disclaimers, permits, etc. ‘The Archive’ makes it easy to search articles by date, helpful if you are evaluating posting trends by month.

Format. Due to the national economic condition, the format of the blog has shrunk down from previously being 1000px wide. This should make your reading overall more convenient and enjoyable. On top of this, the format for each web-log will slightly change focus. Instead of having single-photo posts with a short sentence almost daily, be watching for more periodic posts that provide more detail concerning the exact subject and nature of the research. Hopefully this will make the data that much more valuable to you. Thank you for supporting and partnering with Arctic Surf Blog’s armchair surf-exploration of the colder parts of the globe.

Here is an inside look at how the Arctic Surf Blog tracks and targets some the worlds most remote a desolate and naturally hostile surf breaks.

The penguins calmly sharing the beach with the sea lion is deceiving. The only reason why they aren’t afraid of being in such close proximity to him is because he is very well fed by his main food source, to the point where there is no temptation for him to want to eat them. If this sort of stuff is interesting to you, you can find out more at Shark Encounter, Sea World.

Usually waves approach the coastline from a variety of angles. As a wave begins to approach shallow sea floors, it bends inward to face the shore head on. This is called wave refraction. Below you can see the stormy swell hitting the coast on the right. As it bends inward, moving left, the waves reach into the bay and are protected from the predominant winds. With a little bit more swell energy this headland might prove to be a nice point break.

The coldest waters are teaming with sea monsters such as this one. They are very angry, and territorial, and aggressively defensive.

The first image below is a pretty neat looking wave in the sub-antarctic.

This next image is Rincon. By comparing these two satellite images (which are both taken from the same altitude, so that the scale between the two is exactly the same) it is possible to compare and contrast both waves. We can make some prediction about the unknown wave based upon what we know about Rincon. They are sedimentary points, both are created by a river mouth, they are roughly the same size, and they both consist of cobblestones.

Welcome to Arctic Surf. To start off lets look at some selected satellite images of world-class waves. By becoming acquainted with what the most popular and highly regarded locations look like from above we will be able to better estimate the value and quality of the un-surfed waves we are interested in later on. All of these images are taken from Google Earth, at approx. 650 meters above sea level.