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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 trapped in sea-ice with full moon
Greetings From Palmer Station, Antarctica Residents used their
bright red United States Antarctic Program parkas to write a
greeting to scientists and flight crew aboard NASA's DC-8 as
it flew over the station during Operation Ice Bridge. Photograph
courtesy Johnson Space Center/NASA
Aurora Australis From Space
May 24th 2010
Photograph courtesy
Johnson Space Center/NASA
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The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
Home of the
Blizzard:
April 1913 - The second winter.
Throughout April news by wireless came in slowly and spasmodically, and
Jeffryes was becoming resigned to the eccentricities of the place. As an
example of the unfavourable conditions which sometimes prevailed: on April
14 the wind was steady, in the nineties, with light drift and, at times,
the aurora would illumine the north-west sky. Still, during ``quiet'' intervals,
two messages came through and were acknowledged.
A coded weather report, which had priority over all other messages, was
sent out each night, and it is surprising how often Jeffryes managed to
transmit this important intelligence. On evenings when receiving was an
impossibility, owing to a continual stream of St. Elmo's fire, the three
code words for the barometric reading, the velocity and direction of the
wind were signalled repeatedly and, on the following night, perhaps, Macquarie
Island would acknowledge them. Of course we had to use new signs for the
higher wind velocities, as no provision had been made for them in our meteorological
code-book. The reports from Macquarie Island and Adelie Land were communicated
to Mr. Hunt of the Commonwealth Weather Bureau and to Mr. Bates of the Dominion
Meteorological Office, who plotted them out for their daily weather forecasts.
Ice Breaker Penetrating the Ice Pack
Standish Backus Watercolor on paper, 1956 88-186-BH
- Icebreaker Eastwind is towing an oiler ship
(fuel carrier) YOG-34 through the Ross Sea pack, overhead
a helicopter 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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