Ice Cores from the Dry Valleys Photos

Ice Cores from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica

Karl Kreutz, Bruce Williamson, Mike Waskiewicz and Terry Gacke
October 12 to December 15, 2004

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First, the Hut at cape Evans. Particularly interesting in these pictures are the snowshoes they made for their ponies, the penguin they were examining next to the newspaper, the anchor that was torn off their boat in a storm, and the amount of food supplies that remain to this day (though no longer edible, of course)!

On the Victoria Upper Glacier, one of the elements that was amazing to see was mesa looking rocks. We might have believed we were in the southwest US were it not for the ice!

The Blue Glacier provided beautiful scenery, as well as some interesting snow patterns. Also, look in the first photo to see Mike and Kai (our assistant that day) to give a sense of scale.

A couple of more scenery shots from the helicopter's perspective (the second shot is over the sea ice) sea ice up close(taken at Cape Evans) The LC-130. A much smaller plane and slower too! We took four and a half hours to get to McMurdo on the C-17 and seven hours to get back on the LC-130.

A couple of shots taken from the LC-130 looking down over the ocean (which had less and less ice over it as we flew)