Published over 1 year ago by Magnus Andersen
Jutulhogget is a huge crack in the mountain, where overhanging cliffs rises 900m up from the glacier bellow. Jutulhogget is norwegian, and means "The giant's cut"
Published over 1 year ago by Magnus Andersen
Image from the peak of Volkonskogo Gora, a 2014 msl. mountain in Jutulsessen, Queen Maud land. For its visitors, this peak can offer one of the nicest views in the area, and a bottle of exquisite cognac.
Published over 1 year ago by Magnus Andersen
Picture taken on the south side of Jutulsessen, showing Grotfjellet, Volkon and Brugda towards north, the glacier Bakhallet, and the mountain Terningskarvet further south.
Published over 1 year ago by Magnus Andersen
Image taken outside at the Norwegian research station Troll in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.Image taken on October 4th, same day as the first birds (Snow Petrel) were observed, arriving for the summer.
Published over 1 year ago by Magnus Andersen
Image taken just bellow the summit of Trolltinden, a nunatak in Jutulsessen, Antarctica. Towards north, the norwegian Troll research station is visible.
Published over 1 year ago by Magnus Andersen
Picture taken from the route up to the mountain Volkonskogo Gora, in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Picture was taken on September 25. 2011.In t...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
This hut was errected in February 1908 as the base for Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. Fifteen men lived in this hut. Althoug...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
The back of Borchgrevink's huts at Cape Adare. Borchgrevink's party of 10 men errected these two huts in 1899. They are the firs...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
The historical huts area at Cape Adare is surrounded by a huge Adélie penguin colony.
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
Carsten Borchgrevink was one of the first men to set foot on the Antarctic continent in 1895 (perhaps the first, depending...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
Ice clutches to the edge of a lake while steam rises from the volcano of Mt Erebus. It is a bright sunny summer morning on Ross Island. The dark volca...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
On Wind Vane Hill stands a cross that commemorates the death of three people from Shackelton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Reverand...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
This is an old weather station (towards the west) on Cape Evans. Antarctica has extreme weather: it is the driest continent in the world, h...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Hoylen Sue
This hut was erected in January 1911 as the base for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition. Scott's party reached the South Geographic Pol...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Peter Morse
The interior of Douglas Mawson's room, Mawson's Huts. This was Mawson's private room during the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Ex...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Peter Morse
The darkroom of Frank Hurley, photographer to Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The darkroom is...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Peter Morse
A view of the interior of the Main Hut at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. This was the principal building us...(more)
Published over 3 years ago by Peter Morse
The memorial cross atop Azimuth Hill, Cape Denison, Antarctica. A hill about 25 m high, at the north-west end of a...(more)