Stuffed Toys In Antarctica

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Captain Cook (Penguin) visits Chapel of the Snows.
Berkley and OzGold (bears) look around at the rocks and soil

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Photos

Captain Cook -Outside Chapel
Captain Cook mounts the steps to Chapel of the Snows.

Captain Cook -Inside Chapel
Captain Cook sits in a pew inside the chapel. The chapel is decorated for Christmas, so there is a nativity in the background.

Captain Cook -Inside Chapel
This one lets you see a little of the stained glass window and a second nativity and the Christmas tree in the chapel

Erebus Chalice -Inside Chapel
Inside the chapel is a relic from James Clark Ross's expedition to the South Pole. This communion chalice was carried with the expedition on the HMS Erebus. Generations later, the family of Lt. Bird who had brought the chalice to Antarctica, gave the chalice to the Chapel of the Snows.

View across Ross Ice Shelf
A view across the Ross Ice Shelf. Taken from behind the Chapel of the Snows.

Mystery Tracks
OzGold looks at the tracks in the dirt. What kind of vehicle might have made this kind of track

Treads On Piston Bully
Is this the vehicle that left the tracks? They don't think so, but they do remember that we will have one or two of this at our WAIS Divide camp.

Treads On Ford Pickup
Could this be the vehicle that left the mystery tracks? OzGold and Berkley crawl up to examine the treads more closely.

Dorm Room
The bears are assigned this dorm room. OzGold loves the top bunk because he gets to swing on the ladder.

Water
You are supposed to drink a minimum of 4 liters of water each day. OzGold and Berkley are trying to remember this, but the liter water bottle is bigger than they are.

OzGold - Rocks
Some of the rocks here are volcanic pumice. OzGold tries to lift a larger rock to examine it.

OzGold - Rocks 2
The rock is really heavy!

Berkley - Rocks
Berkley has found a sandstone rock that looks a little like a rose.

Fines
Around the station are bins like this labeled "Fines". These bins contain the dirt and rocks you see all over McMurdo. If there are icy patches in areas where people need to walk, you can scatter the fines over the ice. Berkley and OzGold are fighting over the shovel on the fines bin. They finally worked things out.

Santa
Here is Santa at the Christmas party

Santa with Bears
Here is Santa at the Christmas party. Ozgold and Berkley are telling him what they want for Christmas.

Comments

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Stuffed Animals!
Captain Cook is an adorable penguin. It's amazing that there are actual active volcanoes in Antartica.