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Blogs from Palmer Station, Antarctica, Antarctica
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February 8th 2013
Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest place on Earth.The lowest temperature ever registered was of -89⁰C in 1983, while in the warmest day of summer, it doesn’t reach more than 15⁰C near the coast.There is no rain in Dry Valleys, Antarctica for 2 Million years.No permanent human lives there because the weather is extreme, also no land animal except a very small insect called Mingle Midge. Although 70% of world water is in Antarctica but it is a driest continent. If all ice in Antarctica was to melt the sea water would raise about 200ft.( Click "Antarctica 1/2013" for the panoramic pictures) Co 17 loai Penguins song rai rac khap noi nhung cho o Nam Ban cau ma thoi. Tuy nhien chi co vai loai Penguins song o Antarctica vi troi lanh ma thoi trong ... read more
January 22nd 2013
PALMER STATION - JANUARY 21 -Well, what can I say, more beauty and amazement. At one point in the early afternoon the captain reported we had spotted 28 humpback whales. I didn’t see all, but I did catch many of them. It seems like we saw many hundreds of penguins and a few Orca whales. Some of the scientists from the Palmer Station (a US scientific station in Antarctica) came on board for a couple of lectures. I managed to stay awake and found their presentation and the Q & A very interesting. In the morning I went on the bow to observe a little closer to sea level, but it was COLD, so I only could stay there for 30 minutes or so. The crew brought us Dutch pea soup while on the deck. Very ... read more
October 18th 2012
Deep, down in the vacuous, cold winds of Terra Australis, there lies a land, mysterious as it is cold. Hyperbole is the grand fashion for this “Lady in White.” After all, she is the coldest, driest, windiest, highest (average elevation) continent on Earth. Approx. 98% of her landmass is covered by ice sheets, averaging 1 mile thick, contributing to 90% of the world’s ice. Her ancient tundra has not always been isolated. Almost 170 million years ago, she was a part of the supercontinent, Gondwana, drifting down from the northern hemisphere. Time cannot separate the ancient lineage of memory, in existence with her Gondwanian counterparts: Australia, New Zealand, Africa & South America. Her holographic memory of the universe resides in every cold inch of her vast ice fields of existence. Antarctica remained unconscious to modern civilization ... read more
