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Glaciers formed over thousands of years cover 99% of Antarctica. In the summer, many of the glaciers begin to calve off icebergs into harbours and bays. Penguin rookeries generally thrive where the freshwater glaciers empty.
Paradise Harbour on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. On this cold morning we visited the scientists at the Chilean station of Gonzalez Videla. They had not seen any women in 5 months! A number of glaciers empty into this harbour where a Gentoo rookery exists. The outstanding blue color of the bottom layer of the glacier shows the age of the compacted freshwater.
Photo by: Nydia R. Hanna, MV Marco Polo, December 30, 1995 |
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