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GigapanMagazine.org
vol 1 issue 2
Contributors: Billy Stiner, Nathan Greenland and Rose
Science is the purpose of our presence at the bottom of the world, and there are certainly a lot of scientists here, but people arrive at the South Pole with a variety of job skills that are needed for building or oper...-
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GigapanMagazine.org
vol 1 issue 2
Contributors: Camille Parisel and Erik Verhagen
It is the day before sunset at the South Pole. IceCube Drill Camp is deserted and cold.
During the summers of 2004 to 2008, hundreds of scientists and ice drillers were at the South Pole for this massive project. Their mu...-
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The North Pole. I suppose that the best way to think of the North Pole is to consider a single point on the sea bed under the Arctic Ocean where all the Earth's lines of longitude converge. It is the one point in the Northern Hemisphere around which our planet turns, and its position now is marked by a titanium flag th...
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GigapanMagazine.org
vol 1 issue 2
Contributors: W. Lance Roth, Kristina Shiroma and Katy Jensen
Here is the interior of the Balloon Inflation Facility, (BIF) as we prepare to launch dual plastic balloons. We are using plastic today because the latex balloons break prematurely in the cold temperatures of ...-
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The largest King Penguin rookery in the world is in St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia. The penguins have a complicated reproductive cycle, and this rookery is occupied by penguins year-round. They are a noisy group, but they are not as smelly as the Adelie, Gentoo or Chinsatrap Penguins that we met on this voyage. The ...
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The Alaskan village of Selawik is built on a wetland on the river near Selawik Lake. It is far removed from Kotzebue and the coast, and fuel for heating or generating electricity is very expensive here. Every gallon must be shipped in. Here we see the windfarm that supplies some of Selawik's energy without the cost...
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The sky at the South Pole is often monochrome. We see a lot of solid light gray or white skies and we see a lot of solid blue skies. This sky on December 27 with all of these high, wispy clouds was remarkable. Beneath all the blue and the trails of mare's tails, you can see the tents of the Norwegian and Finnish sk...
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It has been almost a century since Antarctic Explorers bound for the South Pole used Discovery Hut as a haven from the the fierce weather that they encountered on the continent's edge. The Discovery Hut was built in 1901 by the Discovery Expedition which was lead by Robert Falcon Scott. Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod ...
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Prion Island is in the Bay of Isles at the north end of South Georgia. There was a boardwalk under construction when we were there in March 2008. It was over half done, and it gave us a nice beginning to the long climb up the slippery, wet gully to the plateau that you see here. The main attraction of the island a...
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Our thanks to the firemen of the Arvada Fire District who trained members of the 2009 South Pole overwinter crew for 2 weeks in September 2008. The training was challenging and very interesting. At times such as the moment pictured here, things got a bit heated. This is a working fire station. The station is also u...
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