Scott Tent. This is still the same basic design tent that was used by Scott and his men 100 years ago in Antarctica. Very reliable and practical for the local conditions.

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Scott Base, Antarctica in late summer circa 2003.

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Exiting from deep inside the Imax Crevasse into daylight.

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Sunrise sundog at Scott Base caused by ice crystals in the air

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Preparing to release a helium balloon for atmospheric research

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Back in 2003, a C-141 transport plane landed on the seasonal sea ice, which is about 2 meters or 6 feet thick. These have since been replaced by C-17 planes.

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Skidoo on the ice shelf in front of Black Island

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Skidoo amongst the re-frozen melt water channels in front of Black Island

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Vince's Cross, Hut Point Antarctica.
Vince was the first person known to have died in Antarctica.

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Dorm Buildings at McMurdo Station. The odd lighting is because of the fog reflecting all the local town lights back down. There are about 75 rooms in each of these buildings.

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Traversing across the ice shelf in the middle of winter to refuel the Black Island Satellite Station.

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Discovery Hut with McMurdo Station in the background with the full moon in late winter.

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The full moon about to pass behind Mount Discovery as seen from Black Island in April. This photo was taken a few days before the sun disappeared below the horizon for the winter. The sunlight only just hitting the top half of Mount Discovery.

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Pisten Bullies traversing across the Ross Ice Shelf under the winter full moon. Minna Bluff is in the background.

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Looking "Down" off the bottom of the planet at the South Pole.
Fish-eye shot from the camera that was capturing the sun making a 360 degree circle in the sky. The white specs are blowing snow.

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The ceremonial South Pole marker

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The Marker for the actual Geographic South Pole

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The South Pole geographic and ceremonial markers.
The Barbershop Pole in the background is the ceremonial South Pole marker. The small steel pole in the foreground marks the actual South Pole, which needs to be adjusted regularly.

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South Pole Panorama.
On the left is the Geographic South Pole, plus the ceremonial marker. behind it is the dome that housed the old station. The new South Pole Station is the buildings on the right.

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View from the cockpit of an LC-130 Hercules about to land on the Ice Runway at McMurdo

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Looking up at the Barne Glacier, standing on the frozen ocean.

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Scott's original Discovery Hut in the foreground, McMurdo Station in the background. HDR tone mapped image.

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Shackelton's Hut at Cape Royds from his 1907 expedition

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Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds with Mount Erebus in the background

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212 Helicopter departing a field camp in the Dry Valleys.

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McMurdo Station and Discovery Hut on a still day during the Antarctic Winter.

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Black Island Antarctica Telecommunications Facility.
Auroras over the Black Island ground station at 11.30 in the morning in July.

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Pisten Bully vehicles traversing across the Ross Ice Shelf to Black Island in late winter.

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Ice Gopher. Anthony Powell.
Sink holes in the ice shelf re-freeze over winter, and when the ice expands as it freezes it causes these mini-volcano shapes to appear. Ice expands at roughly a 9:1 ratio when it freezes, so there was roughly 9 times the volume of this wee eruption in liquid water hidden just below the surface of the ice a few weeks before.

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Black Island Satellite Station. Long exposure shot during the Antarctic winter.

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Arriving C-17 Plane being guided to a parking spot on the Ice Shelf at the Pegasus Airfield

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C-17 transport plane arriving at Winfly in the noon twilight and -45 degree fog

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Passengers arriving into -45 degree temperatures from the first C-17 transport plane after winter.

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Ist Light. The first sunrise (at noon) after 4 months of no sun during the Antarctic winter

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Full Moon setting over the Trans Antarctic Mountains

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