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Antarctic Pictures Gallery - Clouds go scurrying by
in Antarctica most days, it's the windiest and highest continent
as well as the coldest
Pictures of Penguins in Antarctica
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Ice berg caught in winter sea-ice
This ice berg is grounded
on the ocean floor (and the other 80-90% of it that you can't see!) and sea-ice
has formed around it. The stripes in the ice are formed by snow build up in different
temperatures (probably thousands of years ago) when the berg was a part of
a glacier on continental Antarctica. The small figure is a full-size person.
Sea ice forming in Antarctica from the shore - "sea smoke" can be
seen in the distance - formed where the sea meets the cold air as temperatures plummet
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The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Mawson:
April
1912 - ...during a calm interval on April 6,
within the interval of an hour, an even crust, one inch thick, covered the sea.
But the wind returned before the ice was sufficiently strong to resist it, and
it all broke up and drifted away to the north, except a piece which remained
wedged firmly between the sides of the boat harbour.
There were several occasions in April when the
velocity of the wind exceeded ninety miles an hour. On the evening of the 26th,
the wind slackened, and for part of the 27th had almost fallen to a calm. This
brought the optimists to the fore, once again, with the theory that the worst
was over. The prediction was far from being fulfilled, for, as the days passed,
the average velocity steadily rose.
Ice Breaker Penetrating the Ice Pack
Standish Backus Watercolor
on paper, 1956 88-186-BH - Here the icebreaker Eastwind is represented
towing an oiler ship (bulk fuel carrier) YOG-34 through the Ross
Sea pack, while overhead one of the helicopters scouts the ice conditions.
Picture courtesy The Naval History & Heritage Command - USA
Ice sheets contain a record of hundreds
of thousands of years of past climate, trapped in the ancient
snow. Scientists recover this
climate history by drilling cores in the ice, up to 3,500
meters (11,000 feet) deep. Photograph copyright Reto Stöckli,
NASA GSFC
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