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Archive for December, 2007

Fast and Loose

Posted in Worst Wednesdays, calamities, news on December 28, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Those of you who have been glued to the Polar Discovery website (bless you) already know of our Christmas-day hike to the 1911 stone igloo at Cape Crozier. It was great. We walked across the stupendous Crozier landscape, straight into a fog bank that draped us like a sheet. MacOps, the official radio folks at [...]

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Cute baby pictures #4

Posted in birding, cute baby pictures on December 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »

You asked for it, you got it: a two-day-old Adelie penguin chick. Full story here.
(Image: Chris Linder/WHOI)

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Pics You Won’t See on Polar Discovery #1

Posted in funny picture on December 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Here’s ace photographer Chris Linder at 2 a.m. waiting for some love from the Iridium satellite gods.

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Shackleton’s Hut at Cape Royds

Posted in news on December 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »

First of all, thanks to all you faithful readers who have been checking out the posts at Polar Discovery and writing in with questions and encouragement. The pace has been somewhat grueling so far, with so much to learn and so much of my brain out of commission due to being shellshocked by all the [...]

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Funny sign alert #4

Posted in funny picture on December 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »

This place is full of funny signs. Wait till you see the one from the bathrooms with directions about where to upchuck.
This is in the radio issue room at McMurdo. I love it because I was in Germany earlier this year and was constantly confronted with signs that seemed like they ought to be [...]

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