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Life on a Drifting Station28 viewsThe main airplane, Ilyushin 14 (IL-14) used for transporting personnel and cargo. Image credit: EWG.
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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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114 viewsMatthew Sturm carves snow blocks in Barrow.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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300 viewsAreas that contain much permafrost can look barren. But plants and animals prosper here in the summer days, when the top layer of frozen ground thaws. The caribou in this photograph, in the Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, are migrating in the early fall.
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369 viewsPublic transportation in Antarctica: this bus carries visitors around McMurdo Station.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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360 views Public transportation in Antarctica: this bus carries visitors around McMurdo Station.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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572 viewsThis Antarctic ice stream carries ice off the ice sheet towards the ocean.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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386 viewsOne of the traverse vehicles prepares for the journey at the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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641 viewsTeam members sit in the dining "room" of the traverse caravan.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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2492 viewsThe U.S.-Norway Traverse of East Antarctica traveled in a caravan of specially-designed vehicles for working and living.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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