Saturday, February 12, 2011

12 February--Planes, Ships, and Penguins

Mt. Erebus is truly entrancing.







Pressure ridges near Scott Base.
The pressure ridges continue to form and break up.  Just out of the above picture and to the left, a pressure ridge is growing up under the ice road transition.  The ice road passes over it at an oblique angle; as you climb up over it, the van leans to the left and then on the other, downhill side, it leans to the right.



Flag raising over Iwo Jima?
















The freighter came in and off-loaded some 500 containers of food, supplies, and new vehicles and loaded a like number of containers of food waste, recyclables, hazardous waste, construction debris, and other sundry stuff.   Almost everything needed to keep a town of over 1,000 comes in on the ship.  Exceptions? Mail, fresh food, and things of an urgent nature.  Imagine planning all of your needs for a year--one year ahead of time!



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