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Antarctic Landscape

Icicles hang from the edge of a small blue iceberg as the summer thaw sets in. Antarctica

Gentoo & Chinstrap Penguins on the sculptural form of an ancient blue iceberg. Antarctica.

Sculptured rare Blue Iceberg, compressed & shaped by the sea. Antarctica.

Edge of the Ice shelf at 3.00am, sea ice and a sunrise. Antarctica.

Salt crystals on newly formed sea ice with Brunt Ice Shelf cliffs in background. Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Tumbling blocks the size of apartment buildings, frozen until summer as they break off the Glacier. Antarctica

Ian Marriott arranges a belay in a wind blown cave in the 'Hinge Zone', Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica.

Sunset over Adelie Penguins by Bellingshausen Is & Cook Is. S. Sandwich Is Antarctic

Solitary Emperor Penguin slides towards the setting sun along the edge of the ice shelf. Antarctica.

Mount Vinson above the lower ridges of the Vinson Massif, seen from a Twin Otter. Antarctica

Small lake within the cone of a volcano on Deception Island, The KK is in the Caldera beyond. Antarctica

Wind-sculpted snow on the polar plateau.Fenriskjeften Mountains in background. Queen Maud Land. Antarctica.

Bergy bits in front of the glaciated end of Booth Island. Lemaire Channel. Antarctic Peninsula.

View of Mt.Foraker 17,400ft from W. Buttress of Denali. The 14,000ft camp on Denali is lower left in picture. On warm summer days when there is big high pressure north of the Alaska Range it pushes warm air up & over the mountains. As the air rises over tundra it forms a band of low to mid altitude clouds that tend to dissipate as they move down from range.

Snow capped False Cape Renard, also known as Una's Tits, at the north end of the Lemaire Channel. Antarctica

Bunger Hills seen through the shape of an icicle on a thawing iceberg. Antarctica.

Tilted Iceberg sculpted by the sea. By Casey. Antarctica.

Icicles hanging down inside a crevasse in a glacier. Adelaide Is. Antarctica

Dramatic iceberg with layers of blue and white ice, all eroded by the sea. Weddell Sea. Antarctica.

Waves lash at grounded icebergs on a wild day in the lee of Laurie Island. St Orkney Is. Antarctica

Susan Detweiler checking out a small tabular iceberg near Cape Archer. Left to right on skyline are Haystack Mountain, Mt. England, the Gonville and Caius Range, the Clare Range, The Carr Plateau (closer, Mt. Marston and Doublefinger Peak). The MacKay Glacier Tongue, Point Retreat & Cape Archer are visible at sea level. East Antarctica.

Snow cornice on the Erebus Glacial Tongue with Erebus and a good plume on the horizon. Ross Is. Antarctica

The ice cliffs of the Brunt Ice Shelf, and moon lit by the faint glow of the absent sun. Antarctica.