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Video: Iceberg Flips While Ship Passes
Jun 1st, 2012 at 12:00PM: Sometimes the key to making a great video is simply being in the right place at the right time. That happens to be the case with this clip, which was shot on Argentino Lake in Argentina. A ship just happened to be passing by the Upsala Glacier just as a massive iceberg broke apart and then rapidly flipped over in the water.
The calving of icebergs is actually fairly common although it is seldom ...
Photo of the Day: the greener side of Antarctica
Mar 1st, 2012 at 8:00PM:
We see a lot of amazing images from Antarctica, some with jaw-dropping glaciers and icebergs, others with cuddlier subjects like penguins. Seeing the greener side of Antarctica is rarer, as we tend to envision the continent as perennially covered in ice and snow. While no trees and few leafy plants grow there, you can still see green fields like the one above captured by Flickr user ...Photo of the day - On the rocks
Dec 15th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
Not many of us will have the chance to visit Antarctica, especially with the new heavy-fuels ban introduced this year to protect the environment around the Southern Ocean. Next season only about 25,000 tourists are expected, about the same who visit Walt Disney World every DAY. Unless you are joining an adventure travel group like Quark Expeditions or happen to be an explorer like our own Jon ...Photo of the Day - Antarctica ice arch
Aug 14th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
The frozen climes of Antarctica are considered by many to be one of the last relatively untouched natural environments on Earth. In addition to flocks of penguins that number in the millions and pods of whales, you're likely to encounter massive icebergs that easily dwarf any manmade object. Take the photo above by Flickr user SummitVoice1 as an example. Captured in Antarctica's Brown Bluff ...Photo of the day (01.07.11)
Jan 7th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
An iceberg seems like the perfect image for today, at least from where I'm sitting in Brooklyn, NY, as I watch snow flurries float down every which way against the backdrop of a brick building. It's winter, basically. Why fight it? This gorgeously detailed image of an Antarctic iceberg was taken by Gadling Flickr pool user SummitVoice1.
Got an image that showcases the majesty of cold ...Giant iceberg splits from Antarctica
Feb 27th, 2010 at 9:00AM: A giant iceberg, the size of Luxembourg, has broken free from Antarctica and according to scientists could potentially play havoc with weather patterns across the globe for years to come. The massive chunk of ice, more than 985 square-miles in size, broke free from the Mertz Glacier Tongue along the eastern coast of Antarctica on February 12 or 13, and moved out into a region of the Southern Ocean ...Australia's Macquarie Island
Dec 10th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Have you ever had an obese, wild baby elephant seal drop its head in your lap and slobber nose love all over you? It melts a heart faster than a Snickers in a microwave, really.
Macquarie Island (pronounced mak-worry) is Australia's southernmost point, a tiny spit of an island some 940 miles (1,500 km) southeast of Tasmania. For you mariners out there that's a three-day sail from Hobart-past ...Latest tourist attraction in New Zealand? Icebergs!
Nov 27th, 2009 at 8:00AM: The waters off the southern coast of New Zealand have gotten very crowded lately, as dozens of icebergs have been spotted floating through the region. According to this story from the Daily Mail, the huge slabs of ice have broken off from the Antarctic shelf, and have been flowing north, into the Pacific Ocean, with increasing frequency. In the process, they have become popular tourist ...Last Chance to Get to Greenland on the Cheap
Aug 29th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Okay, it's not at the top of many people's travel lists. Who thinks about Greeland? Well, I do, and I've wanted to go for a while. Hurtigruten is pretty sympathetic to this fact and has a new deal that makes it pretty easy to get it to one of the most remote destinations in the world ... but, you have to act fast. This deal expires on August 31, 2009, and space is limited.
Hurtigruten's new ...Argentine cruise ship runs aground on iceberg near Antarctica
Dec 7th, 2008 at 1:00PM: Imagine you are an entrepreneur who runs a cruise ship company offering tours of Antarctica. You ferry people down to one of the world's last remote continents, running your vessel and its passengers through some of the roughest waters on earth. Now imagine that your Antarctica-bound cruise ship encounters a freakishly out of place iceberg (icebergs near the South Pole? No way!) and suddenly runs ...Cruising Antarctica
Sep 21st, 2006 at 8:50AM: It used to be that people who wanted to get away from it all went to their summer homes. Today, they go to Antarctica. I suppose there are not many places left on this planet where you could experience the ultimate emptiness. Not many that could be reached via cruise ship anyway.
Several cruise companies offer the so-called adventurous trip to Antarctica, yet conveniently experienced in the ...Climbing Icebergs with Will Gadd
Mar 28th, 2006 at 3:02PM: First, a warning: don't try this at home. Not that you
would, since you'd either have to live in Greenland or keep monstrous icebergs around the house. No icebergs? OK, then
read on. The photos
here, and the amazing video
that accompanies it, take us to, well, not Greenland, but a series of icebergs that came off Greenland and which lie
ten miles off Labrador's coast. The climber in the video here ...
