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Elevated Station at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

Elevated Station at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

Commonwealth Glacier in Transantarctic Mountains.

Frozen Beard.

Glacier at Norsel Point, Anvers Island.

Iceberg in North Bay Rothera Point, Adelaide Island.

Molting Emperor Penguin.

Palmer Station Antarctica.

The Dome at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

These pictures of Antarctica, which were taken over the past several years, are some of the most beautiful and amazing pictures of the world and the universe in which we live. Down in Antarctica, November marks the end of spring, the beginning of austral summer, and the beginning of Antarctica’s cruise season. The Sun just rose for the first time in 6 months on September 22nd, and is now visible in the sky all the time. Recent studies in Antarctica have brought new insights into the origins of deep sea octopus species (a 30 million-year-old ancestor from Antarctic waters), volcanic contributions to disappearing antarctic ice, and the effects of increasing numbers of icebergs scouring the seafloor.

  • The Adelie penguin’s hunger helps him make the decision to abandon his egg in search of fish and krill in the sea.
  • A killer whale (viewed from above) swims amid floating ice in the Ross Sea
  • Palmer Station seen from the ocean
  • A molting emperor penguin
  • Sculptured iceberg in North Bay, Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
  • The Calkin Glacier, located in the Taylor Valley in Victoria Land
  • The aurora australis over the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the Dark Sector is so-named due to the absence of light and radio wave interfence.
  • Penguins on a massive iceberg near the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Nacreous clouds near McMurdo, Ross Island, Antarctica
  • The Commonwealth Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains
  • A balancing stone seen on the Dufek Massif in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica
  • An aurora over the Elevated Station at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
  • The northern edge of the giant iceberg
  • A view of the Antarctic coast from the Research Vessel
  • A person stands silhouetted by the South Pole sunset
  • A person stands underneath a natural arch in a glacier at Norsel Point, Anvers Island, Antarctica
  • A full moon and 25 second exposure allowed sufficient light into this photo taken at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the long Antarctic night
  • The former Russian icebreaker and now cruiseliner Kapitan Khlebnikov breaks through the annual sea ice near the Oates Coast of Antarctica
  • A view from the Research Vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer
  • US Antarctic Program participant DJ Jennings shows his frozen beard

Collected here are 32 photographs of Antarctica from the past several years.

Source : Boston