Below, you can see two rookeries of weddell seals in the general area of our camp at Weddell World. On the left is Hutton Cliffs, located along the Hut Point peninsula on Ross Island. White Island can be seen in the distant background. On the right is Turks Head, another seal rookery on Ross Island, but on the northern side of the Erebus glacier tongue.
Matt is taking a stroll across the ice in Erebus Bay, at the base of the glacier tongue.
The slopes of Mt. Erebus are covered with glaciers, and extremely treacherous, due to many gigantic crevasses (left). The Erebus glacier tongue pushes far out into the sound (right). Our camp - Weddell World - is located near the tip of the tongue, and can barely be made out to the left of the tip of the last tongue lobe.
Back at our camp, Weddell World. No matter where you are in McMurdo Sound, if the weather is good, you can always see Mt. Erebus on Ross Island. It is the southernmost active volcano on this planet.
