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I shot photos that continued to the right of this panorama to include the town of Jenner, California, however due to a mixup during uploading I deleted most of the town of Jenner. D'oh!
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Wilczek Island is located in the southeast corner of Franz Josef Land, a rocky archipelago in the Barents Sea north of mainland Russia. The island, like most of the neighboring islands is uninhabited. On November 1, 1873, it was the site of the first landing by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition which disco...
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We left Ushuaia 3 days ago and have successfully crossed the Drake Passage. Before us we see Bellingshausen Research Station on King Edward Island, which is just west of the Antarctic Peninsula. The multicolored buildings of the base are softened by the morning fog. Closer, and much clearer, a cluster of rusting st...
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With its bright white exterior and lapis blue roof, this is a very beautiful church. There was a wedding in progress the day that we visited Murmansk, so I did not go inside.
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This rocky island was the site of the first landing of Austrio-Hungarian North Polar Expedition in 1873.
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Sedova Station is located in Tikhaya Bay on Hooker Island in Franz Josef Land. Franz Josef Land is a small, isolated archipelago located about 800 miles north of mainland Russia. Check out our ship, The 50 Years of Victory, which sailed into the bay unexpectedly when the weather changed. There was concern that the ...
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This 39 meter statue of a Russian World War II soldier commemorates Murmansk as a Russian Hero City and commemorates the soldiers who protected Russia from invasion during the Second World War. Murmansk is localed in a place of strategic importance on the Kola River about 12 km from the Barents Sea. Although the...
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Bellingshausen Research Station is located in a sheltered bay on King Edward Island in the South Shetland Islands. We are just west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Notice the station's multicolored buildings, which are evident even in Google Earth.
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This rocky, flat island is located among the middle islands in Franz Josef Land in a subgroup called Zichy Land. It was named after William Ziegler who lead the Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition in the beginning of the 20th Century. There was once an Austrian observing site, Payer-Weyprecht, on the island. We f...
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This is Ziegler Island as we saw it from the bridge deck of the 50 Years of Victory. This was a rather flat island with little snow cover on this late July morning, On our way to the island we encountered a polar bear waiting by a seal hole. We noticed hundreds of seals on the ice around the island. The seals ...
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