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Antarctica
Travel Blogs from Antarctica
Day 78 - Robert Point to Cuverville Island
Temperature 3C. Today is our first day off the boat and onto the Antarctic islands. They transported us to land with zodiac boats to get nice and close to penguins. "An Antarctic Expedition is the worst way to have the best ...
'Happy Camper' Snow School
Michelle says: I was recently chosen for a morale trip to Happy Camper Snow School! A morale trip is offered when your supervisor wants to reward you by giving you a surprise day off from work to go off station and do something fun. Some of ...
Livingstone and Deception Islands, Antarctica
After a rather rocky night sailing through the storm, going further south on the Antarctic Peninsula, we arrived at Livingstone Island and on its' southern coast Walker Bay and Hannah Point (62 degrees 39’ 1" south 60 degrees 37’ 2” ...
Round the top and into the Wedell Sea
During the night, the captain determined that we wouldhave a rare opportunity to visit the lesser seen, eastern peninsula. Normally, the eastern side of the Antarctic peninsula is heavy with sea ice that breaks off from the Larsen Ice shelf. However, ...
Black Island Girl
I've been hinting that I wanted to go to Black Island to do the inventory audit since I got here and I got really lucky and got the trip. It came at the perfect time, a time when I really needed a change of scenery. It's surprising here how some weeks ...
Aaron's 'Happy Camper' Adventure
... a cold everyone eventually gets it! Therefore every time new people arrive they bring a new set of germs with them. Upon returning to town I got sick...but that's a small price to pay for such a wonderful time seeing what Antarctica is really ...
Day 75, 76, 77 - Ushuaia to South Shetland Islands
Pulled out of the harbor around 6 pm. Sailed smoothly through the Beagle Channel for the first 10 hours of our journey. Our first day crossing the Drake Passage had us at the mercy of the elements will. I spent most of the next ...
Back through the Drake Passage
The following entry was written by Dick Cameron, Expedition Staff: "It was an absolutely fantastic day of very light winds and azure blue skies- a perfect day for our landing at Half Moon Island. This was the very first of this "perfect sort," ...
Base Argentina Esperanza
... largest base in the peninsula. About sixty people 'winter over' each year, with their respective families. The first birth in Antarctica occurred at this base in 1978 and since then another 12 babies entered the world in this remote location. Many ...
Brr Brr Baby, It's Cold Out Here
We have finally established camp at Big Razorback Island. Our "camp" consists of a kitchen hut (with more junk food than you could imagine), two sleeper huts, an equipment hut, and an outhouse. I put camp in quotations because it is not a normal field ...
Merry Christmas!
... we had it rough down here! Now that our big Christmas day is over we are looking forward to ringing in the New Year, Antarctica style (no watching the ball drop on TV this year!), which will bring more celebrating...and the most exciting concert of the ...
Crary Lab & Arrival Heights Tours
... and analyze high-resolution ice core records from the cold glaciers on the ridges between the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, and therefrom to provide interpretations of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability during the last 2000 years. Moving on ...
Day 79 - Cuverville Island to Waterboat Point
I took 250 pictures today. Penguins are nesting right now and had a few chances to see some eggs. They are so entertaining to watch while they climb hills then slide down on their bellies. Penguins make their nests with little pebbles ...
Jougla Point am visit
... and deception. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Expedition Log by Scott MacPhail & Osi Shahaf Thursday, 6th January 2011 "Antarctica is like meeting a mass murderer who looks nice. At least in the Arctic you know ...
First stop
Our first landing in Antartica! Although I wasn't counting it as being on my 7th continent until I actually touched the mainland........I'm picky. When we first landed there was an old whaling boat with a fur seal hanging around along with ...
Whales, Post Offices and farewell Antarctica
... rocks, some krill and an iceberg and I was slowly beginning to believe our last outing would be a catastrofuck. However this is Antarctica, this is the most beautiful place in the planet and she had other ideas… “WHALES!” the call comes ...
Antarctic Sound
Went here but couldn't get through all the ice floes and ice-bergs so headed back to Deception island. Great views ...
The First Winter Fly In (aka Winfly)
Winfly has arrived! Yesterday over 100 people arrived at McMurdo. Ron and I both got to drive out to the airfield to pick up cargo and people. He drove a cargo delta and I drove a passenger delta. Both of them are large, old, rambling machines from ...
Ron goes to the South Pole
This Summer (Austral), Ron lucked out big-time and was the one Materialsperson in the Supply Department to get the Boondoggle (aka usually fun working trip) of the year....to go help out the Supply Department at the South Pole Station. Most of the time ...
Continent of Ice!
... But he got over it, he popped a couple pills and was good to go!! On the third day we finally arrived to Antarctica!! A massive piece of land covered in snow that is so pristine. Compared to our ship we were surrounded by mountainous rock covered ...
Day 1
....so what can i say about my trip to Antarctica...???? Amazing!!! just see the pictures!!! Day ...
Fourth of July Weekend at McMurdo
... until 11:00 a.m., woohoo! It's Monday so our holiday is over and it's gotten warmer (from -100F to -84F...that's wind-chill temp). It was a great weekend and now the long month of July looms ahead of us. 15 more weeks for Velvet and Ron in ...
Halloween in Antarctica
Halloween! Okay, so it was quite awhile ago but since I hadn't started my travelogue then (and since I don't have anything exciting to write about this week), I wanted to include it. If you're coming down for summer, a costume is definitely something ...
Happy Camper, tractor pulls and Pressure ridges
... mid February. Sean Sullivan, RPSC McMurdo Station PSC 469 Box 700 APO AP 96599-1035 So it's been great weather here in Antarctica. Just as I had predicted, the Austral summer here is much easier to take than a winter in Michigan. ...
Foto´s/Pictures Antartica
... de tussentijd zijn hier ook wat foto's te zien van Klaas, die ook op de boot was... http://album.zoom.nl/user/Klaas123/Antarctica/ while we are preparing our next update, here are some pictures taken by Klaas, a fellow passenger: ...
Winter at McMurdo Station
... hours, I've decided to start a Travelogue. I'm not really travelling right now, I'm currently working at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. My husband and I managed finally (after years of trying) to get jobs down here this past summer starting October ...
auroras, the sun and the weather
Here are a few pictures and a little movie clip of some recent auroras. Since the town is so lit up, they're hard to see unless you get out of town. The other night, this show went on for quite awhile and luckily some people were out there taking ...
Day 17-19
Day 17, Wed 20 Nov: Drake Passage Well, Tim's ridiculous wish to experience the Drake Passage in fury has nearly bitten him on the bum. I'm sure he's thankful for modern motion sickness drugs. Talks today on; "Albatross Conservation ...
