Paradise Bay, Antarctica
An excursion ship cruises in front of the sharp peaks of the Antarctic peninsula. The dramatic peaks have an appearance very suggestive of the southern Andes range, and for good reason. They are in fact part of the Andes, which dives into the ocean below Tierra del Fuego, and then re-emerges on the Antarctic peninsula.
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and highest continent in the world. It is twice the size of Australia and a third larger than Europe. It is covered with ice averaging a mile thick, and yet is officially a desert because it receives so little annual precipitation, less than an inch a year. The temperature has reached 129 degrees below zero, the coldest ever recorded naturally on earth. The average elevation of the continent is 7500 feet, and it's highest point is Vinson Massif, at 16,050 feet.
We arrived here on an overcast, cloudy day but fortunately had numerous breaks where the Antarctic coast emerged dramatically through the clouds.
I tried to map this, but I guess Flickr has never heard of Antarctica.
Paradise Bay, Antarctica
An excursion ship cruises in front of the sharp peaks of the Antarctic peninsula. The dramatic peaks have an appearance very suggestive of the southern Andes range, and for good reason. They are in fact part of the Andes, which dives into the ocean below Tierra del Fuego, and then re-emerges on the Antarctic peninsula.
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and highest continent in the world. It is twice the size of Australia and a third larger than Europe. It is covered with ice averaging a mile thick, and yet is officially a desert because it receives so little annual precipitation, less than an inch a year. The temperature has reached 129 degrees below zero, the coldest ever recorded naturally on earth. The average elevation of the continent is 7500 feet, and it's highest point is Vinson Massif, at 16,050 feet.
We arrived here on an overcast, cloudy day but fortunately had numerous breaks where the Antarctic coast emerged dramatically through the clouds.
I tried to map this, but I guess Flickr has never heard of Antarctica.