January 13th, 2009
George and Jodie Harper have traveled extensively throughout the world—including a 10,000+ mile multi-year tandem bike ride around the periphery of the US—but they claim Antarctica is perhaps the greatest wilderness destination they’ve visited. After years of dreaming about visiting the White Continent, the couple finally made the trip on our Classic Antarctica cruise aboard the Professor Multinovskiy. One of the highlights of their trip was a close encounter with humpback whales and they’ve been kind enough to share with us a few photos from this experience.
Tags: Antarctica, humpback whales, zodiac
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January 7th, 2009
With 90% of the world’s fresh water locked in its icy landscape, Antarctica is the focus of much attention when it comes to global warming. If even a small percentage of the continent’s glaciers were to melt, it would have a huge impact worldwide. With this in mind, monitoring Antarctica’s ice shelves has become critically important. One monitoring project involves a yellow submarine which will dive beneath an ice shelf near Pine Island in Antarctica to study how deep ocean currents may cause ice shelves to break off. You can read the full story at the link below:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNewsMolt/idUKTRE5062SQ20090107
Tags: antarctica ice shelf, global warming, ice study
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