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  • Flight prep and near takeoff from McMurdo Station.
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  • Over a rough Ross Ice Shelf approaching Black Island. We are cruising at 900 feet, so these ice features are quite large.
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  • Approaching Black Island Station with Mount Discovery in background.
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  • Approaching Black Island Station with Mount Discovery in background.
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  • Panorama of Black Island Station
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  • Station Communication dome and panorama looking back at Ross Island, a small plume over 12,448 foot Mount Erebus volcano and Mount Terror on right.
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  • Mt Discovery and a section of the Ross Ice Shelf from Black Island. This shot also represents my furthest South at 78 deg 7 min 54 sec! It didn't occur to me at the time that this would be my furthest south or I would have tramped further, just because I could. Walking on this landscape was like walking on the Moon, or Mars.
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  • Looking across 20 miles of the Ross Ice Shelf at Ross Island, the summit of Mount Erebus volcano is 45 miles away. The dark area below Erebus is the Hut Point Peninsula where McMurdo Station is located at the end of the peninsula. Observation Hill can be made out on the right side of the peninsula, Arrival Heights on the left side, and Castle Rock is above and behind McMurdo. On the ice shelf below Hut Point you can see Pegasus Airfield, and several active science project locations.
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  • Black Island
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  • Antenna array
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  • Snow filled D6 Bulldozer
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  • Karyn Martin, the station cook and Scott Gilbert, a utility mechanic, working in the Black Island station kitchen
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  • Tony Marchetti the station manager (standing) and Scott
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  • Karyn Martin, the station cook and Scott Gilbert, a utility mechanic, working in the Black Island station kitchen
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  • Karyn Martin making our excellent lunch
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  • Lunch!
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  • Chill space with a view
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  • Bob Croke, IT Project Engineer and Manager at work next to the huge battery array used to store power from the wind turbines and solar panels.
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  • The station handles all McMurdo communications with the outside world via satellite, so some very complex telecommunications and electrical equipment on hand. It was rumored that the station was going to be replaced within a few years with equipment located on Ross Island.
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  • Ken Kloppenborg Satellite Communications Engineer at work
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  • Ken Kloppenborg Satellite Communications Engineer at work
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  • Inside the satellite dome
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  • Well signed bunkhouse at Black Island. If you watch the film "Antarctica: A Year on the Ice" you will see this bunk house when the film maker, Anthony Powell, visits Black Island in the winter, and the entire inside of this bunk house is filled with snow and ice.
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