Glacier Tongues are the best... this is the tip of the Campbell GT a little to the east of the Italian and Korean bases in Terra Nova Bay... a many 10s of km long thread of ice floating out over the ocean. Nothing else like them on the planet. This coast is festooned with them... #cryosphere#glacier#Antarctica
Fox et al investigate the interesting problem of the increasing intensity of Antarctic Peninsula glaciation during the past 3 million years or so. They find that the increase in glaciation is purely a function of tectonic uplift of the Peninsula, rather than requiring a climatic explanation. The uplifting mountains made it easier for an ice sheet to develop over time. #ClimateChange#Antarctica#IceSheetshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01336-7
An old, never before assembled timelapse from breaking ice on the SIPEXII expedition off East Antarctica in 2012. Shot with a Nikon D200, rotated by hand!
Adélie penguins for #PenguinAwarenessDay ! ⠀
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This handsome couple, two Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), common to all the Antarctic coasts, are hand printed in black ink with a hint of orange on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 12.5" by 9.25" (31.8 cm by 23.5cm). Adélie penguins are the most widely spread and southernly penguins (along with the Emperor penguins).⠀
⠀ #linocut#AdéliePenguin#printmaking#Antarctica#MastoArt
Morning all. It's Friday. Have a nice cup of tea and P-P-Pick up a Penguin! A new poster inspired by this week's antarctic-like weather. Have a great weekend. xx
"In March 2022, Antarctica experienced an extraordinary heat wave. Large swathes of East #Antarctica experienced temperatures up to 40°C (72°F) above normal, shattering #temperature records. (To understand the immensity of this, consider that the previous March maximum temperature at this location was -27.6°C (-17.68°F))
So shocking & rare was the event, it blew the minds of the Antarctic #climate science community. A major global research project was launched to unravel the reasons behind it & the damage it caused.
The #GUSTO#Telescope currently circling #Antarctica onboard a #NASA#balloon flying at 125.000 ft completed almost 16 days of flight and one and a half turns to the south pole.
So far, it has become the most successful flight of a balloon campaign marked by leaking balloons.
The mission aims to remain aloft for another 40 days before being carried away from the continent when the volar vortex disintegrates and finally sinks into the Ocean.
A heatwave in #Antarctica totally blew the minds of scientists. They set out to decipher it – & here are the results
"Under La Niña conditions, tropical heat near Indonesia poured into the skies above the Indian Ocean.
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When the tropical air collided with this so-called “blocking high”, it caused the most intense #AtmosphericRiver ever observed over East Antarctica. This propelled the tropical heat and moisture southward into the heart of the Antarctic continent."
My fellow partners in crime aka esteemed #running colleagues probably already know about this event, but I've just read about it for the first time.
A marathon in #Antarctica (or the #Arctic) would be a tempting place ... if it weren't for the hefty price tag, which ranges from USD 21,000 to EUR 55,000 depending on the location and date 😱
Irish explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic Ernest Shackleton died #OTD in 1922.
Shackleton's first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery expedition of 1901–1904. During the Nimrod expedition of 1907–1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 180 kilometres from the South Pole. via @wikipedia
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Disaster struck the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition when its ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. The crew escaped by camping on the sea ice until it disintegrated, then by launching the lifeboats to reach Elephant Island and ultimately South Georgia Island, a stormy ocean voyage of 1,330 km and Shackleton's most famous exploit. via @wikipedia 2/
In 1921, Shackleton returned to the Antarctic with the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, but died of a heart attack while his ship was moored in South Georgia. At his wife's request, he was buried there. The wreck of Endurance was discovered just over a century later. via @wikipedia