A few friends came out to wave us goodbye as we boarded the plane and took our seats. As the C130 pulled off the ice and started flying north the station got smaller till there was nothing but a flat white horizon and a whining engine tearing us through the sky. The clouds were thick...
further peri-Antarctic islands are recognized at lower latitudes, whose biodiversity overlaps with that of the formally defined sub-Antarctic Islands [12]. The maritime Antarctica is characterized by slightly higher summer temperatures and greater precipitation compared to continental Antarctica,...
This bathymetry is used as geometry input for an established 3D-numerical lake-flow model to simulate the circulation and basal mass balance. Compared to our model studies of subglacial Lake Vostok, we obtain a general circulation pattern that is significantly weaker (due to the smaller size of ...
Size 80-96 cm Wing 50-56 cm Wingspan 210-250 cm Weight 2.9 to 4.6 kg Cape or Pintado Petrel The cape petrel is an unmistakable medium-sized petrel, with a round head and highly distinctive black and white upperparts and upper wings, smaller than the Antarctic petrel. Its speckled appear...
Artwork on the wall at Base A at Port Lockroy, which dates from the 1960’s, depicts British actress Diana Dors, who was often compared to Marilyn Monroe. Proceeds from the shop are used to maintain the museum operations. The post office, which issues souvenir Antarctica passport stamps, ha...
Alaska may not have compared to Antarctica when it came to glaciers, but Greenland certainly did. Greenland has the largest polar ice cap next to Antarctica and the glaciers here are very active. Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier is actually the largest glacier in the Northern Hemisphere and it is...
Polyphacelus stormensis Yao, Taylor et Taylor, a permineralized dipterid fern from the Lower Jurassic of the central Transantarctic Mountains, has been compared to Clathropteris (Yao et al., 1991). We here report newly discovered dipterid fern fossils from the Lower Jurassic of the Trans...
Around 45,000 people travel to Antarctica each year, compared to the five million who visit the aforementioned attractions annually. So you can take pride in photographing scenes most people have never seen before, such as ice calving from glacier or a kayaker moving through the water in the ...
where the first seismic sign of unrest appeared. The depletion of such reservoir should produce a deformation signal with opposite sign compared to the dike opening, as recently observed offshore Mayotte, Comoro Islands58. A low velocity region has been imaged in the mantle wedge beneath the Sout...
Fig. 8. Global mass influx distributions for uMMs (blue) and CSs (red) compared to the CABMOD-ZoDy estimate of uMMs (grey) and CSs (orange) at the Earth's surface. The blue envelope indicates the impact of the mass density of uMMs on the uMM mass influx distribution, the lower and ...