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#expeditions — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Lantern Slide - 'Young Sea Elephants at Heard Island', BANZARE Voyage 1, Antarctica, 1929-1930

    Lantern slide of young Sea Elephants at Heard Island, Antarctica

    One of 328 images in various formats including artworks, photographs, glass negatives and lantern slides.
    Museums Victoria via DigitalNZ

    api.digitalnz.org/records/3802

    #Antarctic #Antarctica #Expeditions #History #Science #Exploration #LanternSlide

  2. #unboxing: After more than a year traversing the #Arctic and #Antarctica 🧊aboard the #RVPolarstern 🚢 , our instruments have finally returned to the lab. They delivered valueable #data for the #CONTRASTS and #SWOS #expeditions. Now, it’s time some maintenance. Because in #polar #research, the end of one campaign is simply the preparation for the next...

  3. Came across this wonderful image from Arctic photographer, Martin Hartley, which shows me skiing up from base camp on Klyutchevskoy Sopka. The mountain had started erupting before we arrived and the volcanic ash on the snow gave the terrain an almost lunar look.

    #Kamchatka #ski #mountains #mountaineering #skitouring #expeditions

  4. We had come to Kamchatka to make a ski descent of Klyuchevskaya Sopka, at 4750 metres in height, the highest volcano in the northern hemisphere. But the weather had not been kind. For two weeks we were beset by high winds and storms. Then we made an attempt to reach base camp by snowmobiles. The savage scenery blew my mind

    #expeditions #Kamchatka #mountains #snow #landscapes