boomerang

after flying 5 hours south, we banked around over Ice fogged Mcmurdo Station and headed back to New Zealand, another 5 hours! this pic over the southern ocean 10 minutes from Mcmurdo-we call it the 'boomerang' we returned the very next day-and made it!

breaking the Ice in New Zealand

January 29th 2011
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 ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Raglan

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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