A year-round inhabitant of the Arctic, the Steller's eider is known as “the bird that sat in the campfire” by the Inupiat Eskimo — a reference to the burnt coloring of the male eider's underside. With ...

Harvested from the nest of eider ducks found wild in Iceland ... used to protect it from arctic conditions and freezing cold seas. During the breeding season, this down naturally sheds, and ...

A cluster of dozens of islands centred on Vega, just south of the Arctic Circle, forms a cultural landscape of 107,294 ha, of which 6,881 ha is land. The islands bear testimony to a distinctive frugal ...