Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Cool links (just to take your mind off the heat)
• Virtual tour of the South Pole; aerial view; tour of South Pole station; webcam (yes, it's dark); current weather (-75°C)
• the British Antarctic Survey; read the diaries of Brits at Halley Research station (current temperature -30°C)
• Antarctic images on flickr
• North Pole webcam (Note: storm-related wind has tipped Camera 1 over, and it now views the sky and cloud conditions)
• North Pole weather (current temperature 0°C); North Pole Marathon; North Magnetic Pole
• visit Iceland; visit Greenland
• Iceberg classification (by height): extra large (>75m), large (46-75m), medium (16-45m), small (5-15m), bergy bit (1-4m), growler (<1m)
• Map of current North Atlantic icebergs (n.b. empty squares inside the iceberg limit may contain growlers or bergy bits)
• the International Ice Patrol (set up to patrol the North Atlantic after the sinking of the Titanic by an iceberg in 1912)
• current Antarctic icebergs; Newfoundland icebergs; Iceberg alley
• Swiss glaciers; glacier retreat; glacier photos; Fox's Glacier Mints
• penguincam; Antarctic penguins; polar bears
• snow crystals
