Antarctica

Photos from a journey to the crystal desert.

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." [Carved on the cross on Observation Hill to memorialize Scott's polar party.]

The ice was here, the ice was there, The first view of Antarctica is always an iceberg. It may be a monolith hovering on the horizon, a barely discernible spectre looming out of the mist, or perhaps a sun-spangled, dazzling icon marking the gateway to this new world. It will undoubtably be icebergs that leave the most lasting impressions on the imagination of visitors. —Mark Jones, Wild Ice
The Intrepid Explorer, John Annexstad
MV Orion in Ushuaia 54'48'S 68'19W
King of the Rookery Penguin Island
A special lunch
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The small 1.4 x 1.7 km Penguin Island is located off the SE coast of King George Island in Antarctica's Shetland Islands, west of the axis of the Bransfield Rift. 62.10°S 57.93°W
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The never-ending dusk
"Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your daily routines ... you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience." Michael Crichton, 1988
The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around; It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound! Samuel Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Gentoo Penguins on Brown Bluff
Concerned Parents Gentoo's rearing their young
A lone Adelie on Brown Bluff Adelie penguins were named after the wife of a French explorer in the 1830s.
What's that over there?
Emily develops her strategy for placing her glass sculpture....
Jonathan Green photographer, zodiac skipper, & naturalist
The first glass installation in Antarctica
"This is definitely better than a pebble!"
Gentoo & Glass
Lynn in window...
"Giant Krill!"
Whale bones on Cuverville Island 64°38S 62°35W
Gentoo poses on Cuverville
Life imitating art...
Station A - Port Lockroy 64°49'S 63°30'W
Port Lockroy
Gentoo at Port Lockroy
Sled at Port Lockroy
Shoo! Gentoo's at Port Lockroy
John & the Thornton's cruising around Almirante Brown Research Station
Gentoo Dance
Gentoo
Majestic peaks guard the channel
Neumayer Channel
MV Polar Star
Antarctica left a restless longing in my heart beckoning towards an incomprehensible perfection forever beyond the reach of mortal man. Its overwhelming beauty touches one so deeply that it is like a wound. Edwin Mickleburgh Beyond the Frozen Sea
Light dances for us here at the end of the earth
Reflections
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