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A Year on Ice: Life in Antarctica
by Mike Richard
YouTube user Anthony Powell (a.k.a. “Antzarctica“) has captured over 1,000,000 photos of Antarctica while living at McMurdo Station and Scott Base over the past five years. This video captures the dichotomy of the Antarctic summer and winter through stark, fascinating time-lapse photographic imagery.
It’s striking how active it is down there – many more people buzzing around than I would expect.
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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November 9th, 2007
It really is an incredible place, and thanks for sharing the link to another awesome site. I was ‘lucky’ enough to have an all expenses paid 6 month trip down to the Falkland Islands a few years back (in fact they paid me…) and it included semi-regular cruises down to Antarctica at no extra cost.
We saw some great stuff – and even got chased by bull elephant seals and everything! It really was a trip and a half…so there are some good things to be said about the Royal Navy! Haha!
Cheers and keep up the great posts
Nath
November 9th, 2007
Nath, that’s incredible! Antarctica has always topped my list of RTW “must-do’s”.