Tag Archives: Ross Island
species diversity

Breaking Ice with Skuas, Seals, Penguins, and Whales

This evening at 6 p.m., the Palmer cast off its lines, weighed anchor, started its great engines rumbling, and set off through the pack ice. After a few safety briefings, everyone flooded out onto the decks for a display of sea ice and wildlife like nothing I have seen before. The temperature was about 30 […]

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