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By popular demand, some Emperor penguins! You can see they are easily double the size of the little Adelies…but dwarfed by the volcano Mount Erebus.
Century-Old Photos From Legendary Explorer Found In Antarctica
"Celluloid artifacts were discovered recently by New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust, which has preserved more than 10,000 objects from Scott’s base. The photographs were developed after careful restoration, and many were badly damaged, according to the organization.
"It’s an exciting find and we are delighted to see them exposed after a century," said Nigel Watson, the trust’s executive director. “It’s testament to the dedication and precision of our conservation teams’ efforts to save Scott’s Cape Evans hut.” The photos serve as a “time capsule” of the area, the trust wrote, and many landmarks from the region can be recognized therein.”
Antarctic expedition scientists trapped in ice
The Snow Dragon is a 166-metre-long icebreaker, cruising towards the Shokalskiy at 14.5 knots.
The Russian-built Shokalskiy left the port of Bluff in New Zealand on 8 December with 48 passengers and 20 crew members to follow in the footsteps of the great Antarctic explorer and scientist Douglas Mawson. Led by the climate scientist Chris Turney of the University of New South Wales, the ship has been sailing through the Southern Ocean, repeating and extending many of Mawson's wildlife and weather observations in order to build a picture of how this part of the world has changed in the past 100 years.
The expedition had already reached the fast ice off Commonwealth Bay, carrying out measurements of the Southern Ocean along the way. A small team of scientists and conservationists also reached Mawson's Huts at Cape Denison on Thursday last week, 40 miles (65km) across the ice from where the ship was anchored. The expedition was heading east on Tuesday to spend a day at the Mertz glacier when it became trapped among thick ice floes near Stillwell Island, off Cape de la Motte.
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Google Street View in Antarctica
Google Maps visits Antarctica's snowy landscape
Antarctica is long known to be an inhospitable place of constant cold and wind and completely void of plant life. It is also supposed to be beautiful -- filled with snowy vistas, blue-tinted glaciers, and penguins.
Google announced today that with the introduction of its new Google Maps feature people don't need to gear up, survive the elements, and make the long journey to explore this corner of the world. They can simply fire up their computers and take a tour with Antarctic Street View.
One of the focuses of this special addition to Google Maps is to teach users about the history of Antarctic exploration and the people who first set up shop in this bleak environment.
Here's what Google's technical program manager for Street View Alex Starns wrote in a blog post:
In the winter of 1913, a British newspaper ran an advertisement to promote the latest imperial expedition to Antarctica, apparently placed by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. It read, "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." While the ad appears apocryphal, the dangerous nature of the journey to the South Pole is certainly not--as explorers like Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Shackleton himself discovered as they tried to become the first men to reach it.
Partnering with the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota and the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, Google has added 360-degree images of many historic spots, including the South Pole Telescope, Shackleton's and Scott's small wooden huts, Cape Royds Adelie Penguin Rookery, and the Ceremonial South Pole.
"They were built to withstand the drastic weather conditions only for the few short years that the explorers inhabited them," Starns wrote, "but remarkably, after more than a century, the structures are still intact, along with well-preserved examples of the food, medicine, survival gear and equipment used during the expeditions."
All of the images were taken with a lightweight tripod camera using a fisheye lens because it was impossible to use the typical Street View trikes in the snow-filled landscape.
These images and more information on the history of exploration outposts in the South Pole will be added to Google's World Wonders Web site, which has other similar projects such as Kakadu National Park in Australia, Modern Mural paintings in Mexico City, and Stonehenge in England.
Google Maps' Street View has recently launched several collaborations that take it beyond city streets. In March, it brought aremote region of Brazil's Amazon to its maps and in February it took its cameras underwater to explore Australia's Great Barrier Reef in a program called the Catlin Seaview Survey.
"The goal of these efforts is to provide scientists and travel (or penguin) enthusiasts all over the world with the most accurate, high-resolution data of these important historic locations," Starns wrote. "With this access, schoolchildren as far as Bangalore can count penguin colonies on Snow Hill Island, and geologists in Georgia can trace sedimentary layers in the Dry Valleys from the comfort of their desks."
Captain Scott's team were 'killed by slimming diet' scientists claim
The men expended more energy than Olympic athletes as they hand-hauled their supplies on sledges across hundreds of miles of ice and snow.
Their rations were too high in protein and too low in fat, and simply did not deliver enough calories, say scientists. As a result, the polar explorers starved to death.
''There has been much speculation about what Scott died of,'' said lead researcher Dr Lewis Halsey, from the University of Roehampton in London. ''Almost certainly his death was due to chronic and extreme emaciation.''
Captain Robert Falcon Scott's disastrous attempt to be the first to the South Pole began in June 1910 as he set off from Cardiff in the whaling ship Terra Nova.
Appalling conditions greeted the explorers in Antarctica, proving too much for the mechanical sledges, ponies and dogs they brought with them.
By January 1912 only Scott and four other members of his expedition remained. Without support, they were forced to haul their supplies across the Antarctic plateau by hand.
On January 17 they reached the pole, only to find that a Norwegian party led by Roald Amundsen had beaten them there.
They now faced a return journey of 1,500 kilometres. In mid-February, team member Edgar Evans died. Then, in an act of heroism that has gone down in history, frost-bitten Lawrence Oates took his famous walk into a blizzard saying he ''may be some time''.
Scott and his last two companions, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers, died in their tent on March 29, 1912. They were just 11 miles from a pre-arranged supply depot.
Dr Halsey's team examined the expedition in light of today's knowledge of nutrition and the effects of extreme exercise.
Scott's rations consisted of biscuits, pemmican (a concentrated fat and protein mixture), butter, sugar, chocolate, cereals and raisins, with initial supplements of pony meat.
The study, to be presented this weekend at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology in Salzburg, Austria, suggests they were inadequate.
Each of the polar explorers were burning nearly 7,000 calories a day hauling their sledges, it is estimated. At the same time, they were consuming only around 4,400 calories.
In comparison, elite cyclists covering 4,900 kilometres over six days burn around 6,500 calories per day. Scott and his men were therefore facing more physical punishment than most Olympic athletes in full training, but without sufficient fuel in the form of food.
Their rations were also too low in fat, which provides more energy than protein weight-for-weight, said the researchers. The balance was 24% fat and 29% protein. Today, adventurers setting out on tough expeditions consume up to 57% fat and just 8% protein.
Other nutrition factors may also have been involved, according to the scientists. Vitamins were not known about at the time, and there was confusion over which foods prevented scurvy.
While it is not clear whether or not the men developed scurvy, they probably did not consume enough vitamin C.
The research is also published in the journal Physiological Reviews. In their paper, the scientists conclude: ''Since Scott and his last two companions, Wilson and Bowers, faltered on their return journey just 11 miles from the next depot, it seems reasonable to conclude that augmented rations based on modern physiological wisdom would have kept them alive..
''Most importantly, they would have had more strength because of larger muscles, more insulation due to greater fat deposits, and a greater ability to recover and heal after each period of man-hauling due to adequate vitamin levels in the body.''
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I love how this doc was made in 2000 and at the end one of the scientists predicted that in 5 years time they will have a water sample. It took them 12 more years!