Spectacular Scenery in Antarctica
This page contains a selection of images of the spectacular scenery in Antarctica. It is difficult to depict the breathtaking beauty, and wild fury of this remote, desolate, dry, freezing, forbidden world.
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Mt. Discovery as seen across the frozen McMurdo Sound, from the Crary Science & Engineering Center.
Mt. Discovery, on the Antarctic continent.
Icicles on the Erebus Glacier tongue.
An icecave at the tip of the Erebus Glacier tongue.
An ice formation near the Erebus glacier tongue.
A view past the tip of the Barne Glacier towards Cape Royds on Ross Island.
Looking past the Barne Glacier towards Hut Point Peninsula.
A skidoo parked on the sea ice in front of the Barne Glacier off Ross Island.
Inside Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds.
The Penguin Ranch, another research camp in McMurdo Sound. This is where Dr. Paul Ponganis and his team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are investigating the diving physiology of emperor penguins.
Air bubbles are trapped in a block of clear, transparent ice.
