Jonathan Schofield
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For #AntarcticaDay here are a few photos from my last visit, on RV Polarstern three years ago. At the end of that trip I didn't know when or if I would return. Now I have a plan to return this season - watch this space.
This is also a timely opportunity to remind everyone that over previous years we have set up a range of outreach and educational resources on the International #ThwaitesGlacier Collaboration website at
https://thwaitesglacier.org/news/antarctica-festival-2024
People and tractors from Neumayer Station wait near the front of the Ekstrom Ice Shelf for the arrival of RV Polarstern. The cliffs at the edge of the ice shelf occupy the lower two-thirds of the picture.
A light mantled sooty albatross gliding over the sea
An oblique aerial view of an ice cliff in the southern Bellingshausen Sea with some small bergy bits and brash ice in the sea in the foreground and spindrift being blown off the ice.
A tabular iceberg on the horizon viewed across a sea-ice covered ocean