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  • Ventifacts
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  • Lake Bonney, dots are the Polar Haven tents and equipment used by LTER scientists. Below these along the shore you can see the Lake Bonney camp. This was my 3rd day at Lake Bonney when I trekked over the Nussbaum Riegel to Lake Hoare for a three night say.
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  • Black patch which I believe is the remains of a basalt cinder cone, which has eroded and flowed down the slope forming a delta of round black rocks. Fascinating and unique formation to see and walk over. Sollas Glacier in distance.
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  • Seuss Glacier from the decent of the Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Terminus of the Suess Glacier and Lake Hoare
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  • Canada Glacier from Lake Fryxell
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  • Looking east from Lake Fryxell camp toward the Commonwealth Glacier. New Harbor and McMurdo Sound is beyond Coral Ridge in the distance.
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  • Leopard Seal carcass near Lake Fryxell station
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  • Hiking toward Castle Rock, Apple emergency shelter on left.
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  • Angela the bulldozer
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  • McMurdo Radio Station in Building 155
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  • Ken Kloppenborg Satellite Communications Engineer at work
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  • Chill space with a view
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  • Shrine on Hut Point Ridge Loop trail
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  • McMurdo from above the Discovery Hut
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  • Stores on the ramp above the hut. Royal Society Range on distant shore of McMurdo Sound.
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  • Looks like an old can of paint
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  • Nelson and Day's bunks
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  • Scott's Cape Evans Hut
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  • Meteorology lab gear
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  • Tabular Iceberg
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  • Tabular Iceberg
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  • Royal Society Range and Bowers Piedmont Glacier
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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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  • Castle Rock
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  • Lake Bonney Camp
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • Cape Royds hut, this side was where the pony stable was located. supply cases, fodder and dog huts can be seen. The hill behind is the Adelie penguin colony. The yellow color on the hillside? That's not dirt.
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  • Cape Royds Adelie colony
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  • Flagstaff Hill and penguin colony, Cape Royds, with supply crates. Cape Royds was hit with a massive storm shortly after Shackleton arrived, burying many of the supply crates so deep in snow and ice that some were never recovered during the expedition.
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  • Flagstaff Point, Cape Royds
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  • Kukri Hills, Lake Bonney and Taylor glacier from Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Trekking across the surface of the Canada Glacier. Lake Fryxell, Kukri Hills and the tip of the Commonwealth Glacier in the distance.
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  • Melt water at base of Canada Glacier
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  • Lake Bonney Jamesway
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  • Taylor Glacier Blood Falls.
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  • Trekking on Lake Bonney toward the Taylor Glacier. This is the glacier which Scott descended to discover this ice free Dry Valley in 1903.
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  • Lake Bonney and Taylor Glacier. This is the glacier which Scott descended to discover this Dry Valley in 1903, later named Taylor Valley after geologist Griffith Taylor. Rhone Glacier on right.
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  • Split ventifact. Ventifacts are rocks shaped by wind blown sand. Because there is no erosion from rain and little from melting snow, the landscape takes on an unusual appearance we are not used to seeing, something closer to a Mars or Lunar landscape.
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  • Wind eroded landscape
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  • Sollas Glacier
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  • Eroded basalt cinder cone
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  • Sollas Glacier
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  • Yours truely in front of the Sollas Glacier. Taylor Glacier in distance.
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  • I'm interested in knowing what this geological feature is. Looks to be a volcanic dike.
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  • Taylor Dry Valley. the 5,200 ft. Matterhorn on right
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  • Climbing Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Lake Bonney and upper Taylor Dry Valley from Nussbaum Riegel
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  • Canada Glacier terminus on hike to Lake Fryxell.
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  • East side of Canada Glacier at Lake Fryxell
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  • Lake Fryxell Jamesway Hut
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  • Canada Glacier from Lake Fryxell
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  • Inside the satellite dome
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  • Berthing dorms looking toward Hut Point
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  • Vince's Cross on Hut Point
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  • Vince's Cross on Hut Point
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  • Cargo Yard
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  • Warm up shack
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  • Cape Evans hut and Windvane hill on December 7, 2015.
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  • 100 year old cordage
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  • Tenaments Bunks, where Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Oats, Meares and  Atkinson slept.
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  • Wall made of packing crates.
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  • The Aurora anchor, at Cape Evans. During Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition the Ross Sea Party was tasked with laying depots for Shackleton’s expected trans-antarctic trek. The depot's were laid at great cost to the men, but Shackleton's trek never happened because Shackleton's ship the Endurance was caught and crushed in the sea ice. The cable broke on this anchor during a storm, blowing the Aurora out to sea and stranding the Ross Sea Party at Cape Evan for almost 2 years. Three men were lost during that time, and a cross was erected for these lost men.
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  • Flight to New Harbor over a windswept McMurdo Sound
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  • 100 ft (30M) high side of Tabular Iceberg
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  • New Harbor and Ferrar Glacier
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  • Ken Kloppenborg Satellite Communications Engineer at work
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  • Karyn Martin making our excellent lunch
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  • Chris Kenry at Castle Rock. Temperature was about 10 deg F, but below zero with a steady Hut Point wind out of the south.
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  • Scientist working on the LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) project on Lake Bonney preparing a robot that samples the lake water column throughout the year.
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  • Shackleton's Cape Royds "Nimrod" hut, with the Adelie Penguin colony
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  • Shackleton's privy, now frequented by penguins
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  • Taylor Glacier
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  • Ventifact
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  • Hughes Glacier
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  • Ventifact
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  • Approaching Castle Rock with Mount Erebus beyond.
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  • A less visited corner of McMurdo
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  • Paint Barn
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  • Waste Barn, the other place where it all ends up.
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  • Abandoned stores in the ramp above the hut. Barne Glacier in background.
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  • Lizzie Meek and the New Zealand Heritage Trust at work in the hut. They were taking an inventory of the hut contents and taking measurements of the hut and making minor repairs. The huts are maintained as heritage sites and are regularly visited to ensure the buildings are stable and weather tight.
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  • Pictured is George Murray Levick’s jotted notes in a photo exposure guide booklet, recently found buried in the ice at Cape Evans. It’s shown to me here by Lizzie Meek, program artifacts manager at the Antarctic Heritage Trust. Touching artifacts in the huts is strictly off limits, and the only person who could be holding this notebook is Lizzie, as she was returning it to the hut as an artifact of Scott’s 1911-1914 Terra Nova expedition. Levick was a photographer and surgeon with the Eastern Party, which became the Northern Party when they discovered Amundsen at the Bay of Whales, embarking on his quest to be the first to the South Pole. Because of Amundsen’s presence Levick’s team looked for other quarters to carry out their program. When the relief ship failed to pick them up they endured one of the most difficult over winters in Antarctic history in an ice cave on Inexpressible Island, surviving on Weddell Seals, burning blubber for light and warmth.
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  • The famous blue pill, all-in-one remedy for any sailor ailment.
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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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  • McMurdo Sound ice breakup
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  • Rust colored Blood Falls
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  • Yours truely (Shaun O'Boyle) in front of a very large ventifact
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  • Where McMurdo now sits was once used as a ski Slope for practicing technique during Scott's & Shackleton's early expeditions.
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  • Terra Nova Hut
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  • Shackleton's Hut, Cape Royds, Antarctica. For many more photographs of Antarctica select from menu on left.
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  • A 10 pm stroll that turned into a  hike. As always in the clear air and barren landscapes of Antarctica, things are much further away than they look. This hill I climbed looked like a short 10 minute walk, and turned into an hour long climb.
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  • Wilson's Stone Igloo, Cape Crozier, Ross Island, Antarctica, with slopes of Mount Terror
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  • Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica. From this hut Shackleton trekked to within 90 miles of the South Pole, before being turned back by lack of food. A round trip trek of about 1,500 miles that made his name as a polar explorer.
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