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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Giant Frozen "Wave" (photos)


"QUANTUM SHOT" #96


Spectacular shapes in ice... Actually, a glacier

Half-melted ice formations at the Antarctic base of Dumont D'Urville (photos by Tony Travouillon).

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Photos by Dionys Moser

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Anonymous Snezhanak said...

wow, that looks spectacular!

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Haha, you know how much fun that would be to sled down? I would totally do it, too! I mean, come on...that's a perfect sledding hill!

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Anonymous Vojnovic said...

unbelievable...fantastic capture!

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Blogger John McBomb said...

I've seen those pics. very beautiful, but they are not frozen waves. it's actually glacial ice that's been eroded by wind or sun into a wave like shape. the color and clarity of the ice is the give away.
check out "Blue Ice" on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(glacial)

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

there's always one that has to ruin it

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Blogger Skeptic Jim said...

"There's always one who has to ruin it"

It's either spectacular and beautiful or it is not. Why can't we accept the beauty of a garden without also having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it?

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Anonymous Dave Moats said...

No glaciers her or waves that big

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does anyone know exactly and with quite certainty where theses photos were taken?

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Blogger Helge said...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/antarcticwave.asp

Has info on who took the pics and when. Also explains they aren't frozen waves, as an earlier poster already indicated.

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Thank you, Helge - info updated.

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