Additionally, Weddell seals have been observed visiting the underwater caves of Erebus Ice Tongue - less to take pictures, more to avoid getting devoured by orcas and leopard seals. The caves are a popular attraction for the residents of nearby research bases McMurdo Station and Scott Base, who come to marvel at the cold, quiet beauty of the place. The flowing shapes and elaborate features - including “ice stalactites”, hanging ice bridges, and intricate, unusually large crystalline structures - are illuminated by a diffuse blue light filtering in from the cold Antarctic sun. Small holes on the surface of the ice open up into soaring, majestic spaces within the glacier’s interior. Media in category 'Mount Erebus' The following 74 files are in this category, out of 74 total. The strange serrated bird’s-eye appearance of the ice tongue gives some hint about the intricacy of the forces at work. Sopka je vysoká 3 794 m, na ostrove sa nachádzajú aj tri alie vulkány (najznámejí je Mount Terror ). Objavil ju James Ross v roku 1841 a pomenoval ju poda jednej zo svojich lodí ( HMS Erebus ). Nachádza sa na Rossovom ostrove pri pobreí Antarktídy. The resulting Erebus Ice Tongue is a slender peninsula protruding 11 kilometers from the coastline, where waves, tidal activity and internal stresses carve the glacier into these stunning ice caves. Erebus je najjunejie poloená aktívna sopka na Zemi. The crash of an Air New Zealand DC-10 into the slopes of the volcano on Antarctica’s Ross Island on November 28 in 1979, is generally considered the country’s worst civil disaster. Erebus - the world’s southernmost active volcano - feeds a valley glacier that flows ahead of the surrounding ice into a protected portion of McMurdo Sound. Relatives of those who died in the Mt Erebus disaster are frustrated at delays in creating a national memorial somewhere on mainland New Zealand. Scott Base was established at the island’s southern point Hut Point. Ross Island is extremely important to New Zealand as it is home to Scott Base, New Zealand’s scientific research station in Antarctica. It’s a fairly specific formula, and it can be found on the west coast of Ross Island, where Mt. volcanoes, and the largest of these, Mt Erebus, is the world’s southernmost active volcano. Moreover, this activity needs to take place in a protected harbor so that the ice tongue remains intact, rather than being broken up by strong currents or collisions with icebergs. Nimrod Expedition (Wikipedia).Living in Antarctica? Tired of the ice-core-collecting grind? Then head on over to the Erebus Ice Tongue, where you can see some of the most spectacular ice formations on Earth.Īn ice tongue is a unique glacial formation created by an ice stream that flows faster than the surrounding ice and thus pushes out to sea ahead of the glacier’s edge. Poles and directions: Australian Antarctic Division. Recommended Podcast: The Infinite Monkey Cageįirst Australian solar farm in Antarctica opens at Casey research station. REFERENCES: 21 – Mawson: Antarctic Exploration Pt 1
Geographic poles on the Rotation axis, Magnetic on magnetic field The”wandering” magnetic pole over time (Wikipedia) Climbing Mt Erebus Now, as alluded to earlier in this post, a number of news stories this week highlighted some research from the University of Edinburgh that shows Antarctica has almost a hundred more volcanoes than anyone knew about before, and the highest is almost as tall as Switzerland’s 3,970-metre Eiger.
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