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Antarctica 2008
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At work (image by Fumiko Shioda)
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Below is a set of images taken on a trip aboard the Russian
icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov to the Antarctic during the Austral spring of
2008.
All images are copyright 'Ferdinand Valk'. It is
expressly forbidden to use any or all of these images without prior consultation
and permission (email arctic at fvalk.com).
High resolution imagery (tiff) is available. A
catalogue with thumbnails, pricing and Terms & Conditions is available upon
request.
A PDF file with a presentation given at a
seminar in Guildford, UK July 19, 2009 for the Group for Earth Observation (GEO)
can be found here:
Guildford-fvalk.pdf.
Please be aware that the file is large (82 MByte) as it contains several
animations and some photo material as well. Right-click the link to save to your
local computer.
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Rio Plata, Buenos Aires
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Trelew airport, Patagonia
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Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego
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Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego
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End/Begin of Panamericana
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Ushuaia harbour
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Main street 'San Martin' Ushuaia
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Leaving Ushuaia port
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Cabin aboard Kapitan Khlebnikov
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Albatros
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Petrel
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No flapping required
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Icebergs around South Shetlands
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Sunglint
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Tabular iceberg
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Penguins on ice floe
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Weddell Sea iceberg
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Weddell Sea increasing ice cover
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Closing in on multi-year sea ice
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Foraging penguins
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Penguins on pack-ice
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Fleeing from approching ice breaker
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Reconnaissance and transportation helicopter
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Basecamp
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Igloo
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Ice sculpture
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Strolling emperors
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Waiting chicken
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Emperor
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Fatty chick
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Saturation
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Satisfaction
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Protection
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Colony
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extent of colony
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Watch out for birds
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Humpty Dumpty
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Can opener
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Hazy white
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Parking the Ice Breaker
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Sea Ice and Snow Hill
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Icy (a) Bird
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Sky
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Emperor group
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Chick with parents
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Danger
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Skua
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Weddell Seal pup
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Yelping
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To infinity and beyond
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waiter
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Khlebnikov from helicopter
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Night falls
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Sunset
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Pinnacle
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Pulling sledge
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Foraging highway
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Back from sea
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Hunting for food
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Self
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Glacier ice
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Breathing hole
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Meeting at sea
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Strolling Emperors
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Speech recognition
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Thirst
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Too big to be convenient
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Colony five
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Frigid spot
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Feeding
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Singing
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Calling Mom
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Tenderness
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Expectation
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Up and over the hill
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Listen to this one
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Scanning the horizon
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Adapted tongue
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Uphill battle
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Ice cave
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Arch
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ship's wake freeze
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Rare ice free rock
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Weddell seal with pup
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Resting mom
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Two pups
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Calling out
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Watchful pup
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Eating/drinking snow
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Quenching thirst
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Skua and prey
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Colony 6
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Watching morene
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A tall order
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Posing
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The photographers
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Who goes first?
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Chilly sunbathing
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Jumping out the water
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Flying Penguin
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Mom waking up
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Breaking ice again
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Breaking ice as seen by helicopter
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Approaching quite fast
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Corridor
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Devil Island
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Adelie penguin colony
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Nesting Adelie
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Mating, nesting
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Inclement weather
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Windy
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Table
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Nesting Gentoo
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Gentoo stone nests
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Finding stones
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Ready to mate
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Brown Bluff, mixed colony
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Snowy Sheathbill
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Shore ice
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Brown Bluff Coast Line
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Kelp
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Gentoo home coming
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Gentoo male
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Odd shape
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Shades of blue
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Sea-borne glacier
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Farewell from Antarctica
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View from the bridge
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Drake passage waves - 1
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Drake passage waves - 2
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Ushuaia Airport
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Ushuaia from the Beagle Channel
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Isla de los Lobos - 1
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Isla de los Lobos - 2
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Isla de los Lobos - 3
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