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Antarctic Icebergs from the plane 5th January 2007

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  • Canon EOS 20D
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  • f/4.5
  • 1/320 sec
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  • 11 Jan 2006, 08:02
Antarctic Icebergs from the plane

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After being on the ice for almost 2 weeks, we headed back towards the mainland of South America. Most people were asleep, so I could see out of one of only 2 small windows this huge Ilyushin freightplane possessed. We passed the edge of the continent here, in the back you can still see a distant mountain range, in the foreground you can see the huge chunks of ice breaking off into enormous icebergs.

A little while later the sun was almost down the horizon -for the first time in 2 weeks- but then at about 4 in the morning it came up again.. One more day until our first moment of real darkness..

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