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Aboard C-17 jet. 110 people fly to McMurdo Antarctic station from Christchurch, New Zealand. After 5 hours flight we turned back due to bad weather at the landing site www.gigapan.org/gigapans/17976/ . We made so called boomerang and spent next 5 hours heading north to Christchurch. 8 handheld shots, Pentax ...
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It has been almost a century since Antarctic Explorers bound for the South Pole used Discovery Hut as a haven from the the fierce weather that they encountered on the continent's edge. The Discovery Hut was built in 1901 by the Discovery Expedition which was lead by Robert Falcon Scott. Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod ...
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Hercules C-130 on the Pegasus white ice runway in McMurdo. Group of 50 people arrived on 5th of Jan 2009 to Antarctica after 8 hours flight from Christchurch, New Zealand. They move to Ivan the Terra Bus, the only public like transportation vehicle in Antarctica connecting Mctown with the airport.
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McMurdo is a bustling community of scientists and support people on Ross Island on the edge of the shore of Ross Sound. There is much research in the Ross Island area, and most of the these building support that research. McMurdo is also the gate to the interior of Antarctica, and scientists and support staff bound...
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NSF: McMurdo Station (77°51'S, 166°40'E), the main U.S. station in Antarctica, is a coastal station on the volcanic hills at the southern tip of Ross Island, about 3,864 km (2,415 miles) south of Christchurch, New Zealand, and 1,360 km (850 miles) north of the South Pole. The original station was built in 1955 to 195...
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This panorama of McMurdo Station displays some early summer activities. McMurdo is a staging point for research in the Dry Valleys and for marine research in the waters nearby. McMurdo is also the point through which most people and supplies pass on their way to the Pole. Look around and see some of the equipme...
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360-deg panorama taken inside the C-17 jet airplane flying from Christchurch, New Zealand to McMurdo station on the Ross Island, Antarctica. 110 people were aboard the plane. Most of them are USAP participants (red parkas), there were also some Kiwis and large group of BBC staff with Sir David Attenborough www.g
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At Hut Point, near McMurdo Station, Nov 1st 2010
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This is taken from the top of Observation Hill between the US McMurdo Station and New Zealand's Scott Base.
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Pegasus white ice runway at Mcmurdo, Antarctica. C-17 USAF jet just landed on the Ross Iceshelf after 5.5 h flight from Christchurch (NZ), ready to unload passengers and cargo.
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