Blue Ice

Glacier Ice

When ice is aged, it appears blue due to the compacting of water molecules and the elimination of air over thousands of years.

 

 

 

 Port Lockroy - south of the Gerlache Strait and through the beautiful Neumayer Channel. This was the location of a British station established in 1944. An extensive gentoo rookery is nearby. Port Lockroy is a supurb natural harbour where many glaciers empty into the bay.

 

 

Photo by: Nydia R. Hanna, MV Marco Polo, December 30, 1995