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McMurdo Station, Antarctica!
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McMurdo Station, Antarctica!
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Quiz: If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the world’s oceans would rise by how much? |
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McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Winter Over. |
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Pentex K1000 |
| Date | 1993-1994 Winter Over 1 year. |
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Ice road to McMurdo Station from the ice runway made on sea ice from McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea about 10 to 12 feet thick.
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McMurdo’s indigenous wildlife, close-up of an Adelie penguin.
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Just a small ice burg locked up in the annual ice in McMurdo Sound.
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Close-up of a snowdrift.
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Hut Point at McMurdo Station (77°46'S 166°51'E) is the location of Scott’s Hut or Discovery Hut and was a main staging point for Scott’s Antarctic Expeditions 1901 – 1913.
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Adelie penguins and me chillin at Hut Point at McMurdo Station.
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New Zealand’s Scott Base from the Ross Ice Shelf. This is also close to the polar plunge 100-degree club. During the antarctic winter jump in the seawater (27f) with the air temperature (-73f) 100-degree difference, now that’s cold.
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From the deck of the ice cutter USCG Polar Sea WAGB-11 clearing a navigable channel in the sea ice to allow ships to deliver supplies to many Stations via McMurdo Station.
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Ross Sea exposed and with exposed water comes opportunities.
Below is a killer whale and a few penguins or lunch on ice delivered. |
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Clear out the sea ice and look what sails in.
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Start digging!
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Now that's a snowdrift! I was trapped in side for a day and a half.
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Noon at McMurdo some time in July (middle of antarctic winter no sun), getting ready for the mid-winter airdrop to resupply.
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Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
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| Answer to Quiz ==> | 200 - 210feet (60 - 65meters) - everywhere. |