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Sims Island in Stange Sound. There’s a penguin colony in there, so IceBridge didn’t approach it.
New sea ice with finger rafting next to older sea ice floes
Iceberg near Spaatz Island
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The DC-8 flew beneath its own contrail, left behind about 90 minutes prior, while flying near the South Pole
Sea ice west of the Antarctic Peninsula
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The Feature 2: Zoom-in on the blue ice exposures on rock ridge, possibly filling in subglacially quarried cavities
The Feature 1: Unusual blue ice exposures next to and on a broad rock ridge, beneath a sharper ridgeline, Palmer Land
Pyramidal nunataks on the Dyer Plateau
Mt. Balfour, which splits the lower reaches Fleming Glacier, with tidewater glacier terminus in the foreground
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MCoRDS and snow radar data collection over a transition from grounded ice to the floating Abbott Ice Shelf, showing the change in bed echo intensity and the detailed layering of the near-surface
MCoRDS and snow radar data collection over a transition from grounded ice to the floating Abbott Ice Shelf, showing the change in bed echo intensity and the detailed layering of the near-surface
Elevation along the eastern flank of Rignot Glacier, approximately 0-100 s in the plot
Elevation along the eastern flank of Rignot Glacier, approximately 0-100 s in the plot
DC-8 shadow against crevasses on Abbott Ice Shelf
Nunataks on Thurston Island
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Jigsaw rifting, George VI Ice Shelf
Ice tongue in miniature, George VI Ice Shelf
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Polynya along the edge of the George VI Ice Shelf
Peninsula mountains
Larsen-C rift
Brabant Island
Map of North Peninsula mission
Mount Berlin
Bluff with icefalls
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