CHURCHILL, Manitoba, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- In case internet users hadn't gotten their fill of freezing temperatures and snow banks in real life, Google Street View added its latest online "Trek" today -- a virtual journey to the snowy tundra of Churchill, Manitoba, to track and film polar bears in their natural environs. The expedition, undertaken last fall, was a partnership between Google Maps and non-profit group Polar Bears International. Impressive footage of the remote landscape and the giant white predators that inhabit it was captured using the same panoramic camera technology that enables the street views of Google Maps. The camera was mounted to an extra-hardy "tundra buggy" built by engineers at Frontiers North.
The photography is available for users to explore the same way one would navigate Google Maps.