Snowtrac on the slope
Regal visit
Looking across to Mt Hordern
View from Mt Twintops
Spring tripping
Blizz'd In
Rolling past Depot Peak
Travelling past sunset
Trig point on Peak 7
Heading away
Pre-heating the Polaris
Up to the plateau from Mawson
Mt Bechervaise
North past nunataks
Blizzard aftermath #2
Prince Charles Mtns Panorama
The "Nella Dan" returns.
Balloon away
Arrival at PCM Nov 1966
Sunset and a parting iceberg
Surveying on Mt Lacey
Climbing Bechervaise
Midnight sun through Weasel Gap
Looking further south from Mt Lacey
Moving again
Another blow
Weather closing in
VW "Antarctica 3" heading across sastrugi
Blizzard aftermath
Adelie penguins
Black-browed Albatross
Up and away
Getting them out
Mawson gets a radar
Aerial Mawson
Merry 66 Xmas
Leaving Mawson #2
Back to Mawson
New generator
Looking south over the plateau
Leaving Mawson
A year's supply
Visiting Adelie and Emperor penguins
Digging out #2
Digging out #1
Around in East Bay
Ghost of Christmas (long) past
Why did we stop?
Castaway by Flying Boat!
Leaving
Visiting Lusitania Bay
The old Lusitania Bay hut
"Islander" arrives in "white tail" mode
DC3s at Essendon, 1965
The hat
Nacreous Clouds at sunset
Vehicles at Mawson
The Mawson bar
Midwinter dinner
Snowtrac near Mt Henderson
View from the office window
First blizzard
DUKW going ashore
Strawberry ice cream?
Sea ice sunset
Vincennes Bay reflections
Out across the pack ice
Crabeater Seals
One of the first icebergs
Into the pack ice
From one extreme to another
Don't dip your wingtip!
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Nacreous Clouds
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From an old 1966 slide and from a set moved from the 'other' site. We were knocked over by those clouds behind the meteorological office. They are Nacreous Clouds, also known as "Mother of Pearl" clouds because of their colours or, more currently, as "Polar Stratospheric Clouds". They are made of ice crystals (which give their colour) and are about 20,000 metres high with temperatures dropping to about -80 C. They had always been considered quite rare and I believe our sighting was one of the first confirmed in Antarctica: there have been numerous sightings since.. Ozone depletion caused by chlorofluorocarbon gases has caused the polar stratosphere to become colder in spring (ozone keeps it warmer, so less ozone ie "the ozone hole" means lower temperatures) - yes, this is relevant to climate change. View on black. And HFF!
Don Sutherland, Polyrus, , beverley have particularly liked this photo
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when we saw snow, ice and hail all at once with some sunlight ... I think it was perhaps
a similar thing ... rare to see here .... roll on spring ;-) or perhaps a spring roll .. they
are quiet tasty ;-) have a good week George ... oOo
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