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Aboard C-17 jet. 110 people fly to McMurdo Antarctic station from Christchurch, New Zealand. After 5 hours flight we turned back due to bad weather at the landing site www.gigapan.org/gigapans/17976/ . We made so called boomerang and spent next 5 hours heading north to Christchurch. 8 handheld shots, Pentax ...
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Hercules C-130 on the Pegasus white ice runway in McMurdo. Group of 50 people arrived on 5th of Jan 2009 to Antarctica after 8 hours flight from Christchurch, New Zealand. They move to Ivan the Terra Bus, the only public like transportation vehicle in Antarctica connecting Mctown with the airport.
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It did not last for long last season in the harsh Antarctic environment. Panorama stitched out of 250 pictures, Canon SX10 on Epic 100. Shutter 1/2 s, f/8, ISO 80.
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NSF: McMurdo Station (77°51'S, 166°40'E), the main U.S. station in Antarctica, is a coastal station on the volcanic hills at the southern tip of Ross Island, about 3,864 km (2,415 miles) south of Christchurch, New Zealand, and 1,360 km (850 miles) north of the South Pole. The original station was built in 1955 to 195...
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The Lake Bonney field camp located in the Taylor Valley is a permanent instalation which is used every summer season by different research groups, primarily by limnology teams studying lake processes in Antarctica. The main structure of the camp is jamesway hut with heated kitchen/living space. Take a look inside of it...
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360-deg panorama taken inside the C-17 jet airplane flying from Christchurch, New Zealand to McMurdo station on the Ross Island, Antarctica. 110 people were aboard the plane. Most of them are USAP participants (red parkas), there were also some Kiwis and large group of BBC staff with Sir David Attenborough www.g ...
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Suess Glacier in the Taylor Valley, one of McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. This is view from the East with a nice reflection in water of Chad Lake which merged recently with Lake Hoare. PENTAX K10D, 33 handheld shots, 1/160s, f/18, ISO 100, focal lenght 38.7 mm
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Pegasus white ice runway at Mcmurdo, Antarctica. C-17 USAF jet just landed on the Ross Iceshelf after 5.5 h flight from Christchurch (NZ), ready to unload passengers and cargo.
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Dais dolerite intrusion in Wright Valley in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica - Fantastic shapes of weathered and sculpted by wind dollerite. GigaPan of Wright Valley with location of Dais www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12089 GigaPan view from Dais www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12086