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Life on a Drifting Station15 viewsRecreation could include climbing the large ridges and hummocks on the ice station floe. These often reached 10 meters in height. During excursions like this, one of the men would typically carry a rifle for protection against polar bears. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears26 viewsThis station member was just climbing around on the ridges and hummocks of the ice floe, but, like all who ventured away from camp, he carried a rifle for protection from polar bears. Image credit: EWG.
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Allan Hills913 viewsThe Allan Hills are located on the flanks of the TransAntarctic Mountains. Ice upwells onto the hills where combinations of winds and solar insolation cause the ice to quickly ablate. Meteorites that once fell over a large region of East Antarctica have been carried by glacier motion into this small locality.
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425 viewsA group of researchers sit in the airplane to McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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369 viewsThe U.S.-Norway Traverse of East Antarctica used large, specially designed vehicles to drive slowly across the ice sheet.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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156 viewsThe traverse cabin waits for the start of the expedition at the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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600 viewsThe traverse cabin waits for the start of the expedition at the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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2283 viewsInside the dining cabin of the U.S.-Norway Traverse of East Antarctica: the team celebrates Christmas with a special dinner.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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394 viewsRenne, one of the traverse cabins, was named for a famous sled dog.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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191 viewsThe WeatherHaven and its surrounding equipment. Welcome!
Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer.
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411 viewsSea ice and icebergs combine to form patterns.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
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