Majestic Antarctic Images

[AbruptSLR]

A4R's postings in the "Weather" thread inspired me to open this new thread of majestic Antarctic images.  Feel free to post your favorite images and/or videos about the Antarctic; maybe they will inspire someone to try to preserve this natural wonder (and in the meantime save the world from a lot of sea level rise).

[AbruptSLR]

I like the three attached images of an Antarctic iceberg that has flipped upside-down to expose its keel ice, which is blue because this ice was formed under pressure so its ice crystal lattice has stretched O-H bond lengths resulting in the ice absorbing all other colors and reflecting the blue light:

[blumenkraft]

[Stephan]

Wonderful picture, blumenkraft.
It looks like it couldn't be created naturally.

[blumenkraft]

I know, right? Thought of Games of Thrones when i saw it.

[Sebastian Jones]

Where did this image come from Blumenkraft? It is surreal, amazing and, yes, majestic!

[blumenkraft]

Sorry Sebastian, i don't know any detail about it. I found it on Reddit and as a location, only Antarctica was mentioned.

[SteveMDFP]

Sorry Sebastian, i don't know any detail about it. I found it on Reddit and as a location, only Antarctica was mentioned.

I believe the origin of the image is here:
https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/886643/

Photograph by Sander Klaassen
Cathedral Iceberg   #antarctica #iceberg
This very amazing shaped iceberg was shot in Plenau Bay, Antarctica
Date Uploaded:   Jan 16, 2009
Copyright:   © Sander Klaassen

[blumenkraft]

Awesome Steve thanks so much!

No wonder the place is called Plenau Bay, eh?

[be cause]

glad I looked .. b.c.

[kassy]

What kind of process would make the ´pillars´?

[bligh8]

...flyin fire breathing dragons.

you did ask.....so

Cheers
bligh

[KiwiGriff]

Melting of less compact ice in old crevasses when the mass was deeper in warm sea water?
Awesome photo by the way .

[IceConcerned]

Awesome!
It looks like an Egyptian temple

[DrTskoul]

Same melt/patterning profiles seen at this arch :

[DrTskoul]

and

[zxy]

One image, maybe not so majestic considering colors.

Link: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?lat=-68.609&lng=-62.567&zoom=9&time=2019-08-27&preset=EW-DH-HV-DECIBEL-GAMMA0-ORTHORECTIFIED&datasource=Sentinel-1%20AWS%20(S1-AWS-EW-HHHV)

[blumenkraft]

One image, maybe not so majestic considering colors.

Link: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?lat=-68.609&lng=-62.567&zoom=9&time=2019-08-27&preset=EW-DH-HV-DECIBEL-GAMMA0-ORTHORECTIFIED&datasource=Sentinel-1%20AWS%20(S1-AWS-EW-HHHV)

I could kiss you! I didn't even know EO-Browser shows the radar pics too.

Your link made me find Oden (i think). Check the Nares Strait thread.

>> https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,176.msg225790.html#msg225790

PS: Awesome find! Can't like your post enough (only once).

[blumenkraft]

At the most northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula.