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| Inside the C17 air force plane |
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| C17 landed on the ice runway |
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| The capital sign, soon to be removed due to politics. |
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| Out the front of Scott Base |
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| Ice sculpture in the pressure ridges on the sea ice. |
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| Mt Erebus from the pressure ridges in the sea ice |
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| Frozen waves |
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| Daylight at 1am on the sea ice! |
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| I was there for work... |
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| View of Scott Base (the NZ base) from one of the three wind turbines. There were around 60 people on base whilst I was there. |
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| McMurdo (the US base) which can have up to 2000 people in summer. When it's windy the three turbines produce enough power for 50% of both bases combined. |
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| Giant ice cliffs of the Erebus Glacier Tongue where it meets the sea ice. Some summers the sea ice at the base breaks out and waves lap at the ice cliffs. |
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| Fascinating formations in the fresh water ice which contains large bubbles of air. I took a chunk back to the bar and put it in my gin and tonic to hear it crackle! |
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