Geology of Antarctica
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Geological GigaPans from the Antarctic continent and Palmer Archipelago.
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Adélie penguins and chicks on Torgersen Island, in the vicinity of Palmer Station, Antarctica. There has been a significant decline, about 85%, in the number of Adélie penguins in this area - from over 15,000 breeding pairs 35 years ago, to fewer than 3,000 pairs and falling today. The decline of this ice-dependent...
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This 360 degree panorama was shot on a rare clear, sunny day (January 16, 2012) at the high point of Torgersen Island near Palmer Station, Antarctica. It shows Palmer Station on Gamage Point, Anvers Island, against the backdrop of the Marr Ice Piedmont, Mts. Agamemnon and Francais, Mt. Moberly, Mt. William, the southe...
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McMurdo Station, Antarctica from Ob Hill at around 1am.
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Lake Untersee, November 2008. Dr. Valery Galchenko of the Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia is seen walking across the lake back to our camp. Lake Untersee is one of the largest (11.4 km2) and deepest (>160 m) freshwater lakes in East Antarctica. Located at 71•S, the la...
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A small rockeries of Adelie penguins at the Cape Bird, Ross Island, Antarctica. This is not a big multi-thousands rockery so one can count penguins and skuas captured on this pano. Any Volunteers? :-) Pano stitched of 200 hand-held shots, Pentax K10D
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A nearly 360 degree view of a tiny island off the coast of the Antarctic Penninsula. The hikers are National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored geologists and paleontologists studying Cretaceous deposits on the Island. Somewhere among the rocks a single Adelie Penguin may be visible.
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Lake Bonney is a saline lake with permanent ice cover at the western end of Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is 7 km long and up to 900 meters wide. A narrow channel only 50 meters wide (Lake Bonney at Narrows) separates the lake into East Lake Bonney (3.32 km²) and West Lake B...
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Taylor Valley is the southern one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, located west of McMurdo Sound. The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo Sound at Explorers Cove at the northwest head of New Harbor in the east and is about 29 km long. It was once occup...
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Cape Evans, Ross Island, Antarctica. The cape was discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) under Robert Falcon Scott, who named it the Skuary. Scott's second expedition, the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13), built its headquarters here, renaming the cape for Lieutenant Edward R.G.R. Evans, Royal Navy, ...
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