Christopher  > Travel > Antarctica
Photos from a journey to the crystal desert.

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." [Carved on the cross on Observation Hill to memorialize Scott's polar party.]
 
Christopher > The ice was here, the ice was there, The first view of Antarctica is always an iceberg. It may be a monolith hovering on the horizon, a barely discernible spectre looming out of the mist, or perhaps a sun-spangled, dazzling icon marking the gateway to this new world. It will undoubtably be icebergs that leave the most lasting impressions on the imagination of visitors. —Mark Jones, Wild Ice
Christopher > The Intrepid Explorer, John Annexstad
Christopher > MV Orion in Ushuaia 54'48'S 68'19W
Christopher > King of the Rookery Penguin Island
Christopher > A special lunch
Christopher > VU0K1344
Christopher > VU0K1350
Christopher > VU0K1344
Christopher > VU0K1348
Christopher > The small 1.4 x 1.7 km Penguin Island is located off the SE coast of King George Island in Antarctica's Shetland Islands, west of the axis of the Bransfield Rift. 62.10°S 57.93°W
Christopher > VU0K1327
Christopher > VU0K1355
Christopher > The never-ending dusk
Christopher > "Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your daily routines ... you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience." —Michael Crichton, 1988
Christopher > The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around; It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound! — Samuel Coleridge, ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
Christopher > Gentoo Penguins on Brown Bluff
Christopher > Concerned Parents Gentoo's rearing their young
Christopher > A lone Adelie on Brown Bluff Adelie penguins were named after the wife of a French explorer in the 1830s.
Christopher > What's that over there?
Christopher > Emily develops her strategy for placing her glass sculpture....
Christopher > Jonathan Green photographer, zodiac skipper, & naturalist
Christopher > The first glass installation in Antarctica
Christopher > "This is definitely better than a pebble!"
Christopher > Gentoo & Glass
Christopher > Lynn in window...
Christopher > "Giant Krill!"
Christopher > Whale bones on Cuverville Island 64°38’S 62°35’W
Christopher > Gentoo poses on Cuverville
Christopher > Life imitating art...
Christopher > Station A - Port Lockroy 64°49'S 63°30'W
Christopher > Port Lockroy
Christopher > Gentoo at Port Lockroy
Christopher > Sled at Port Lockroy
Christopher > Shoo! Gentoo's at Port Lockroy
Christopher > John & the Thornton's cruising around Almirante Brown Research Station
Christopher > Gentoo Dance
Christopher > Gentoo
Christopher > Majestic peaks guard the channel
Christopher > Neumayer Channel
Christopher > MV Polar Star
Christopher > Antarctica left a restless longing in my heart beckoning towards an incomprehensible perfection forever beyond the reach of mortal man. Its overwhelming beauty touches one so deeply that it is like a wound. —Edwin Mickleburgh Beyond the Frozen Sea
Christopher > Light dances for us here at the end of the earth
Christopher > Reflections
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > VU0K1725
Christopher > Almirante Brown Base, Antarctica 64' 52'S 062'52'W
Christopher > Gentoo's now man the station
Christopher > Paradise Bay
Christopher > Tranquility near the Garzon Glacier
Christopher > At the top of the mountain overlooking Paradise Bay
Christopher > Small ship, great sea Bryde Island in the background
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Taking it all in...
Christopher > VU0K1758
Christopher > VU0K1764
Christopher > VU0K1807
Christopher > VU0K1846
Christopher > Almirante Base at the foot of Mount Hoogh
Christopher > Ice flows in Paradise Harbor
Christopher > Lone Zodiac
Christopher > His paradise home.
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > The Zodiac Crew
Christopher > The mountain honors the Minke Whale
Christopher > It is around the table that friends understand best, the warmth of being together.
Christopher > Sunning in the austral summer
Christopher > Well east coast girls are hip I really dig those styles they wear And the southern girls with the way they talk They knock me out when I’m down there -The Beach Boys
Christopher > Melchior Islands Zodiac Cruise 64°20S 63°00W
Christopher > Melchior Islands Zodiac Cruise
Christopher > Overturned Iceberg
Christopher > Any inhabitants?
Christopher > This world is an uncertain realm, filled with danger. Honor underminded by the pursuit of power, freedom sacrificed when the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honor, and freedom. These men are known as Musketeers. - Dumas
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Sun sets over Antarctica
Christopher > Pink, white & blue
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > The golden mist
Christopher > The Glowing Horizon
Christopher > Crew prepares for the day
Christopher > Adelie Rookery
Christopher > VU0K1552
Christopher > VU0K1582
Christopher > VU0K1592
Christopher > VU0K1401
Christopher > Torgersen Island Named after Torstein Torgersen, the first mate aboard the Norsel. In 1955, they were the first to enter Arthur Harbor.
Christopher > MV Orion anchored off Anvers and Torgersen
Christopher > Palmer Station Anvers Island Lat. 64 °46 'S, Long. 64 °05 'W
Christopher > Torgersen Tenacious Guard
Christopher > VU0K1675
Christopher > Come join me, the water's warm
Christopher > The Orion Makes Way in the Lemaire
Christopher > Entering the Lemaire Channel. Named by Gerlache for Charles Lemaire, a Belgian explorer of the Congo.
Christopher > Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there; Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where: Then were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet. -Shakespeare
Christopher > Beauty is truth Truth is beauty ... —Keats
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3
Christopher > Lemaire Channel
Christopher > Lemaire Channel
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Christopher > Lemaire Channel
Christopher > Lemaire Channel
Christopher > Lemaire Channel
Christopher > VU0K2059
Christopher > Lemaire Channel
Christopher > Little John Rides the Big Steer
Christopher > Deception Island 63° 21’ S 60° 45’ W In 1906, Captain Adolfus Amandus Andresen was the first to establish a whaling operation here.
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Driftwood, seawrack. The tide lays her unreadable icons where the beach shelves. There are other carvings: bleached whale vertebrae, a seabird’s rumpled ruin; and among marram dunes yoked to this scrubby beach, sea purples bloom. Once a smokestack rose up on the bay and a whaler’s shed where the bluff ends. Now only wind roars over the seaward mountains; seaspray mists an obscure coast. Whale Coast Robert James Berry
Christopher > Everyday items humanize the station
Christopher > VU0K2106
Christopher > VU0K2114
Christopher > VU0K2118
Christopher > VU0K2122
Christopher > VU0K2128
Christopher > VU0K2130
Christopher > By 1914-1915, thirteen whaling factories were operating on Deception.
Christopher > VU0K2139
Christopher > VU0K2151
Christopher > Neptune's Window
Christopher > Neptune's Window
Christopher > VU0K2180
Christopher > VU0K2189
Christopher > VU0K2190
Christopher > VU0K2194
Christopher > A chinstrap bids us farewell!
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Always time for a soak...
Christopher > Dinner is served.
Christopher > Gentoos
Christopher > VU0K1962
Christopher > VU0K1963
Christopher > Chinstraps, Gentoos & Macaroni's cohabitate on Hannah Point
Christopher > VU0K1452
Christopher > VU0K1473
Christopher > VU0K1476
Christopher > VU0K1480
Christopher > VU0K1665
Christopher > VU0K1490
Christopher > Chinstrap unafraid
Christopher > Humpbacks
Christopher > They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs. The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers there they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of the sea! -Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence
Christopher > VU0K1428
Christopher > VU0K1604
Christopher > VU0K1512
Christopher > VU0K1504
Christopher > I am the Albatross That waits for you At the end of the earth, I am the forgotten soul Of the dead sailors Who crossed Cape Horn From all the seas of the world, But they did not die in The furious waves Today they fly on my Wings to eternity, In the last trough of the Antarctic winds -- Author Unknown
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Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
Christopher > Antarctica photo
 

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