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Flying along chunks of B-15...  
   

Flying along chunks of B-15...

On the way back, our helo pilot flew us really low (at 125" we were at about mid-height) along the side of one of the iceberg chunks and then he banked really steeply and landed us on it for a moment... I can now say that I have landed on an iceberg!
Granite Harbor field camp

December 9th 2007
I was chosen as one of the four carpenters to go out to Granite Harbor to pull out the field camp that had been established there for ANDRILL (www.andrill.org). Granite Harbor (~100 miles north along the mainland coastline) that had been established for the ANDRILL team to do test drilling (of sea ice and sediment cores) for a few weeks after which we were called ... read more
Antarctica » Antarctica » McMurdo Station

 Flag Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas sou... ... read more
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