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Antarctica
Emperor penguins!In the five years that I’ve been priviledged to come to the Antarctic, I’ve never been lucky enough to see an emperor penguin up close in the wild. I may have spotted one standing alone on an ice floe while I was on the NBP several years ago, but it was so far in [...]
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MedevacAntarctic history is full of tales of heroic responses to medical emergencies ranging from the spectacular 1977 incident at a Soviet base where the doctor was forced to remove his own appendix, to the over-publicized case in 1999 where the South Pole doctor was rescued an entire week before the station was scheduled to open [...]
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Happy Birthday to Me!Henry Malmgren celebrates his 32nd birthday in Antarctica, and finally figures out his plans for the next few years.
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Springtime at Palmer StationSpringtime comes to Palmer station Antarctica, with the arrival of a fresh crew, lots of animals, and windy rainy days.
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Antarctic Maternity WardIt’s springtime on Anver’s Island Antarctica, and the Weddel seals are starting to give birth.
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The Real March of the PenguinsPenguins begin to return to Palmer Station, Antarctica.
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Christmas in JulyAfter the 4th of July, there’s really not a good holiday to celebrate for a good long time, so we decided that it would be appropriate to celebrate Christmas this month. Several of the folks on station took it upon themselves to dig thru some of the storage units, and finally came up with [...]
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Ice ClimbingDuring a brief period of nice weather last weekend, four of us on the station decided to go over to the bottom of the local glacier and do some ice climbing. Two of us including myself, were first time climbers and personally I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’d done a bit of [...]
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Winter offically beginsSo the last boat has left, and we’re on our own for the next 90 days. Not much of a period of isolation I admit, but I’m really looking forward to it. This is a great crew, right up there with the crew at the South Pole Station my first time there. [...]
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Midwinter 2005Happy Midwinter all! This has to be the most unusual midwinter I’ve ever celebrated down on the ice, and as a result it just doesn’t seem like such a big deal. We’ve still got the summer crew here, its still light outside for about five hours a day, and there is a [...]
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