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fatbirdpics · 1 year

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penguins can be super good parents. we're late enough in the season where they need to be fattening up for their own molts, but they're still feeding their too-late-season chicks 😭 (there was a massive snowfall in the west Antarctic peninsula, which is one of the spots most strongly affected by global warming, so they couldn't lay eggs until *weeks* later than usual)

(if you like what I'm doing, you can toss a coin to me here, or better yet donate it to your local bird rescue/society)

#wildlife #antarctica #antarctic peninsula #chicks #jougla point #original photo

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sitting-on-me-bum · 4 months

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Shrouded in Mist, Spectral Icebergs Float Around the Antarctic Peninsula in Photos by Jan Erik Waider

In late 2019, Jan Erik Waider boarded the Bark Europa, a 56-meter-long wooden sailing ship constructed in 1911, bound for the Antarctic Peninsula. The Hamburg-based photographer, whose work centers on polar landscapes (previously), captured the multifaceted forms of glaciers and icebergs, steely grays of storms, and shrouds of mist during the 24-day voyage. Waider is known for his documentation of dramatic northern destinations like Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, and a trip to the southern extreme proffered an opportunity to expand on his series of atmospheric vistas with the project A Faint Resemblance.

All images © Jan Erik Waider

#jan erik waider #photographer #icebergs #mist #antarctic peninsula #bark europa #a faint resemblance #landscape #nature

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meibaestars · 5 months

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Ok taking a break from TADC and going back to Overwatch lore, here's something I've wanted to talk about for a while.

Antarctic Peninsula Labs map, yeah?

This is the symbol on the blue side, aka the cryonics side.

It's also Mei's ultimate symbol.

Now look at this:

This is the symbol on the green side. Which is hydroponics lab.

I can't find this symbol anywhere else- though, it looks like something of Null Sector, which considering my favorite theory that Null Sector was involved in the deaths of the E:A team, is a DARKKK hint. Also, here's everyone's specialty in E:A:

Mei: Climatology

Oparah: Cryonics

Torres: Cryonics

Arrhenius: Climatology

MacReady: Engineering

Adams: Researcher

Notice that NONE of them specialize in hydroponics. However, that may go hand in hand with, say Climatology, but still. They might all work on it, but they don't specialize in it.

I keep wondering if it could be a hint at a hero in the future, based solely on the fact the other symbol is Mei's ult. It just absolutely baffles me- and I hope to GOD Blizzard isn't just being lazy but, knowing them they probably aren't and there's some significance behind this.

And before I go, Another thing I noticed:

This is a symbol on the blue team spawn, aka the cryonics research lab.

I can't find either of these symbols or any discussion about them anywhere. Anyone have some ideas abt them? (i wrote this when sleepy so I may have more to add onto it later)

#overwatch #overwatch 2 #overwatch lore #mei ling zhou #overwatch mei #mei overwatch #lore analysis #overwatch antarctica #antarctic peninsula

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doctorlavender · 4 days

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Antarctic Peninsula | Overwatch

#overwatch #overwatch map #antarctic peninsula #video game #video game scenery #buildings #antarctica #my screencaps #my edits #game screencaps #game screenshots

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sowhatifiliveinfukuoka · 23 days

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Places to visit...

Antarctic Peninsula

#PLACES TO VISIT #ANTARCTIC PENINSULA

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pinkguacamole · 1 year

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Antarctica!!!

Here are some photos from the snowy first morning after two days crossing the rough Drake Passage when we visited Port Lockroy to see gentoo penguins and mail postcards from the most southerly post office in the world. The mail may or may not arrive in a year or so after traveling from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Falkland Islands then the UK then wherever they are supposed to go. Port Lockroy was a British research station until 1962.

#antarctica #travel #nature #port lockroy #Antarctic peninsula

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cancityforge · 1 year

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Overwatch 2 Maps: Antarctic Peninsula

#overwatch 2 maps #overwatch 2 #antarctic peninsula

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jcmarchi · 1 month

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Researchers in Antarctica to help safeguard vital krill stocks - Technology Org

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Researchers in Antarctica to help safeguard vital krill stocks - Technology Org

The University of Southampton is leading an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula to survey Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them.

The team, who departed the UK a fortnight ago, are travelling to the remote region on a yacht to tag the whales and survey their main source of food – krill, a small shrimp-like crustacean.

A whale – illustrative photo. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license)

Their expedition will provide data to assess whether the current fishery management framework is sufficient to safeguard krill stocks, which underpin the unique Southern Ocean ecosystem.

“The risk is that fishing becomes concentrated in krill-rich predator feeding spots and then depletes them, leaving nothing behind for the marine animals that rely on them to survive,” says Dr Ryan Reisinger from the University of Southampton, who is leading the expedition.

Antarctic krill are one of the most abundant animals on earth and are a major food source for many predators, including fish, penguins, seals and baleen whales. Antarctic krill also send carbon to the deep ocean through the sinking of their faeces and by moulting their exoskeletons. The small crustaceans are the focus of a commercial fishery and are being caught at an increasing rate to be processed into feed for fish farms (e.g. salmon) and oils for nutritional supplements.

At the same time, populations of baleen whales, a major consumer of krill, are in recovery. Fin whales – the second largest baleen whale after the blue whale, had been hunted to near extinction. Now they are growing in number, returning to historic feeding grounds, and finding themselves in competition with fishing vessels.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is the international body which sets limits on how much Antarctic krill can be caught, where and when. These catch limits are measured in thousands of tonnes across vast swathes of ocean, but krill are particularly concentrated in smaller shelf areas close to land which are frequented by both predators and fishing vessels.

To address this mismatch in scales, CCAMLR plans to implement finer scale management procedures. To inform this, the researchers from the University of Southampton, the British Antarctic Survey, the University of California Santa Cruz, and the Scottish Association for Marine Science are collecting data to better understand the distribution of foraging fin whales, Antarctic krill and fishing vessels.

Team members from the University of California Santa Cruz are fitting two different types of tags to fin whales. CATS tags provide short-term detailed data, monitoring swimming speed, direction, body orientation and more, while LIMPET tags provide longer-term information on the location and behaviour of the whales.

Dr Reisinger adds: “Tagging whales helps us to understand in far greater detail where and how whales feed on krill, information that is essential for us to manage and conserve Southern Ocean ecosystems. We know surprisingly little about how the largest whales – including fin whales – behave in Antarctica”.

The researchers are using echosounders – a type of sonar – to locate and measure swarms of krill. These are fitted to the bottom of the research vessel and a new type of autonomous vehicle called an ImpYak®. Developed by the Scottish Association for Marine Science, this is essentially a remote-controlled, impeller-driven kayak which will be used to survey near-shore areas that research vessels can’t reach.

Three University of Southampton PhD students are on the expedition, funded by the INSPIRE programme. Amy Feakes, one of the PhD students, said: “Being part of this research cruise has been an incredible learning experience – from collecting data for my PhD to understanding the planning that goes into a research cruise. Working in this challenging environment and with new equipment and technology has given me some new skills which I can hopefully continue to use throughout my PhD.”

The data collected from this fieldwork will be combined with information on fishing vessel activity provided by CCAMLR and Global Fishing Watch to model overlap between krill, whales and fisheries, to provide forecasts which could be used for finer scale, more dynamic fisheries management.

Dr Sophie Fielding, an ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, said: “Antarctic krill play a central role in the Antarctic marine ecosystem. Making measurements of krill (prey) alongside their predators (whales) in near-shore areas is technically challenging and will provide new insights into controls on swarm behaviour and distribution.”

The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus.

Source: University of Southampton

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tripaccomplice · 1 year

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The Witty Traveler's Guide To Cruising Antarctica

Ah, the joys of summer. Never ending sunshine. Balmy temperatures in the twenties & thirties. The refreshing feel of gale-force winds upon your skin. Such are the perks of spending a summer (i.e. winter for the northern hemisphere) visiting the White Continent. Antarctica, duly nicknamed not so much for its demographics as for the fact that everything is covered in snow and ice, is seeing more…

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#Antarctic #Antarctic Cruises #Antarctic Peninsula #Antarctica #Drake Passage #Elephant Island #Ernest Shackleton #Falkland Islands #Gerlache Strait #Neumaier Channel #South Shetland Islands #Stanley

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2-4-thesea · 1 year

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Sailing in Antarctic waters.

#nature #landscape #antarctic peninsula

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travelnshit · 1 year

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Antarctica Days 9, 10 & 11

Day 9 Well today was an absolute write off. The tablets I’m taking for seasickness absolutely floor me. I actually take them for overnight bus rides because firstly they let me read on the bus without risking pebble dashing the seat in front of me with my partially digested dinner, but they also ease me gently into a coma. The trouble is the drowsiness stays with you for several hours the next…