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                    <title>Palmyra Atollpart 2</title>
                    <description>After 3 months on Palmyra Atoll it was time to pass the island and the work to another crew. Its been an amazing experience to live on an idylic tropical isle with only 4 other people at least for a while. Undeveloped and now protected Palmyra is an example of what nature can do after man has done his worst. Nearly leveled contaminated and almost treeless during WW2 the Atoll is now covered i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Pacific/blog-707215.html</link>
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                    <title>On to Palmyra Atoll Part 1</title>
                    <description>After a nearly 400 mile sea journey we arrived at Palmyra Atoll roughly 1100 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands. Palmyra is a US territory a US Wildlife Refuge and national monument. Partly owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy its an amazing low lying volcanic Atoll home to hundreds of thousands of pelagic birds and covered by dense jungle and Coconut palms. Palmyra is really a group</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Kiribati/blog-697859.html</link>
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                    <title>Honolulu to Christmas Island Rep. of Kiribati</title>
                    <description>Just about caught up on my blog anyway.... So in December 2011 I and my 4 future coworkers arrived on Christmas Island Kiritimati but pronounced Kiritsmasts in the Republic of Kiribati but pronounced Kiribas Confused I was so easier just to say Christmas Island Even many locals call it that. Its a unique Atoll very dry and almost savana like interior except for many miles of lagoo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Kiribati/Kiritimati/blog-693009.html</link>
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                    <title>Breeze though the North IslandNZ  Sydney and on to Christmas Island..</title>
                    <description>After a little over a week in Christchurch sorting my post Antarctic work stuff and seeing what I could in Christchurch off to Auckland where by rent a car I headed SE through the amazing countryside to Mt Manganui 39The Mount39 the picturesque and trendy beach town across the bay from busy port city Tauranga. I was there to visit Kiwi friends Sheryl and Tonywhom I met many years ago wh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Plenty/Mount-Maunganui/blog-691315.html</link>
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                    <title>Christchurch NZthe Red Zoneand a city slowly healing. </title>
                    <description>Christchurch NZ has been been through alot the last year over 700 quakes 2 severe loss of nearly 200 peoples lives and many billions of dollars in damage. The second largest city in the country and the business and tourism hub of the South Island has ground to a halt in many respects. the CBD central business districtdowntown is completely inside the 39Red Zone39 uninhabitable over</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-689814.html</link>
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                    <title>New ZealandQueenstown and on.......</title>
                    <description>ah sorryonce again this post is backdated After completing the Otago Rail Trail I took a bus from the pretty little town of Clyde NZ to Queenstown the 39fun39 capitol of NZ and one of the most beautifull locations for a city anywhere. Ive been there several times always staying at the lakefront YHA hostel. As always I love Qtown touristyyes but such a pretty setting and lots to d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-686263.html</link>
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                    <title>New Zealand Dunedin and the Otago Rail Trail</title>
                    <description>well this was from Nov 2011 just continuing to catch up on my blog so anyway after leaving the Antarctic I went by bus to the lovely Southern NZ city of Dunedin a city I had previously visited but not for many years. Dunedin is a 39unitown39 and lots of Scottish heritage. Its got amazing beaches wildlife and gateway to the wild south coast that looks toward Antarctica. and the Cad</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-683114.html</link>
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                    <title>My year and then some on the Ice comes to a close....</title>
                    <description>Apologies again this is a Nov 2011 post before leaving The Ice that I never got around to finishingpublishing so now catching up and almost there  thanks for taking a look Originaly scheduled to leave Mcmurdo Station in early Oct i was extended till early Nov11 But I greatly enjoyed the transition from summer to winter to full summer againno other seasons here the sun is up the sun is </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/McMurdo-Station/blog-675604.html</link>
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                    <title>Winter on the Ice March to August 2011</title>
                    <description>apologies as this was actually posted Dec 28.11I had not updated so now getting back on track My third winter on the Ice we had a station population of 151 later 149 due to emergency medical evac of personel they are now fine Lots and Lots of snow oddly enough not that frequent in Antarctica and some good  kicking polar storms. But also much warmer than normal wintersthis makes for </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/McMurdo-Station/blog-674774.html</link>
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                    <title>Penguins Penguins Penguins..and a couple Seals</title>
                    <description>With our winter setting in and the sea ice beggining to form  the penguins around McmurdoScott Base will soon walk slide  and swim to other places the Emperors with  their shiny new coats of feathers will head SE to their rookeries to breed all through the  polar winter in horrific weather for a human anyway. What Natures' purpose in this ritual is I dont know survival of the fittest may</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/McMurdo-Station/blog-587547.html</link>
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                    <title>The Ice has Gone Out</title>
                    <description>Antarctica is covered by Ice so much of it that the entire continent has been pushed hundreds if not thousands of feet down into the Earths crust by the sheer wieght. Its over 3 miles thick in places pretty amazing really. In the winter the entire landmass is surrounded by a ring of ice that can go out over 100 miles or more in places its the seasonal Sea Ice which in summer often breaks up an</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/McMurdo-Station/blog-579843.html</link>
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                    <title>breaking the Ice in New Zealand</title>
                    <description>One of the things that happen when youve been a 'castaway' in the Antarctic for a number of months is that you slowly forget the world to the North the planet that is a warm blue green and brown ball and not the stark white black and grey you have come to see as your world.  As spectacular a landscape as it is and as interesting a place it can be humans were never meant to be part of Antarcti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Raglan/blog-565831.html</link>
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                    <title>Sea Ice School</title>
                    <description>Working and living in the Antarctic environment requires specialized training especialy if your job has you offstation out on the ice or up in the mountains. Whether you are a scientist or merely supporting science as I and most of us on station do there is needed training. From snow mobile operation to what we call 'Happy Camper' school basic polar survival skills the training is usually </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/McMurdo-Station/blog-552540.html</link>
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                    <title>pressure ridgesScott Base NZ</title>
                    <description>Ice Ice and more  Ice    But in this case its wierd and wild a Dr. Seussesqe view of the polar world a penguins' sweet dreams or maybe just a polar acid trip These are Pressure Ridges caused by tidal forces under the thick seaice pushing the ice against the shoals or shoreline. They change regularly are unstable and therefore we have to follow the flagged route  through after they ha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/Ross-Sea/blog-557068.html</link>
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                    <title>Central TransAntarctic Mountain science camp</title>
                    <description>CTAM   Central TransAntarctic Mountains just another acronym for one of many Antarctic science camps supply depots and scientific or historic sites. After all the NSF Nat. Science Foundation is a federal agency so acronyms are the govts way of confusing everyone. Like the military and NASA acronyms are the norm on this continent so i fit right in from the start.  A typical conversation ma</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/blog-552756.html</link>
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                    <title>Halloween in Antarctica</title>
                    <description>well some traditions transcend locations oceans and ice.....one would be Halloween at least for Americans so here we go its cold and scary down here</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/McMurdo-Station/blog-552535.html</link>
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                    <title>On to Antarctica...</title>
                    <description>After too short a stay in New Zealand not even 3 days up at 4am for the ride to the airport. No aftershocks from the recent big quake here since yesterday  at least that I felt We arrived at Christchurch Intl. Airport at the joint USNZ Antarctic terminal dressed in our ECW Extreme Cold Weather clothing  and waited for our USAF C17 flight to Mcmurdo Station some 5 hours and 2000 miles</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/McMurdo-Station/blog-552528.html</link>
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                    <title>Auckland to Christchurch NZ</title>
                    <description> Aboard  JetStar to Christchurch by way over the west coast of the N Island and over the Kaikoura Range headed to the very cool and Green enviromentaly Hotel So in Christchurch NZ just a block or so from Catherdral Square. Hadnt been here in 2 plus years the recent earthquake damage was obvious all over the city with aftershocks a daily occurance felt a 4.0 while in the shower Took the R</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-542594.html</link>
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                    <title>denver CO</title>
                    <description>Here in Denver for a couple days of training coutesy of Raytheon Polar Services Co preparing us for our journey to Antarctica. Decided to head out and do a little sightseeing in town and in Cherry Creek State Park experience some open grassland and trees before the Ice and the long flight to New Zealand.</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Colorado/Denver/blog-542583.html</link>
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                    <title>DenverLAAuckland Christchurch NZ</title>
                    <description>Left Denver Colorado after a flurry of phone calls to home use up those cell minutes Aboard  my Frontier Airlines flight to LAX Kudos to Frontier the best US airline Ive flown onthank you for the great service and not charging a traveling surfer big bucks for his board  A fantastic evening approach into LA  the city lights just coming on through the smog glued to the window as always I</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-542588.html</link>
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