The Churches of Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
May 30, 2022
In an article in Vice , Brian Merchant argues that the first structure that humans will probably build on Moon after they have completed bui...
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Antarctic Oases
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2022
Antarctica is one of the most inhospitable places in this earth, with all-year-round freezing temperatures, violent katabatic winds and ice ...
Rectangular Iceberg
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2018
Nature follows specific laws, but results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. So when NASA scienti...
The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 6, 2017
The cold hard stare of Lenin penetrating the icy air is the only thing you’ll come across the vast frozen landscape in this part of Antarcti...
Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut by cooled, solid rock. But sometimes the...
Places Where Three Time Zones Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
When Italian mathematician Quirico Filopanti first sounded the idea of time zones in his book Miranda! published in 1858, he proposed that ...
Don Juan Pond: The Saltiest Body of Water on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2014
Don Juan Pond is a small, ankle-deep lake located in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, nestled in Wright Valley between the Asgard Mou...
The Ghostly Remains of the Yacht “Mar Sem Fim”
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 12, 2013
Mar Sem Fim (“Endless Sea” in English) is a Brazilian yacht that was shipwrecked, sunk and subsequently got frozen in ice in Maxwell Bay of...
McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: The Driest Place on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 7, 2012
Antarctica is covered with ice, but not all of it. The McMurdo Dry Valleys is almost entirely snow free. Located among mountains by McMurdo ...
Colour Striped Icebergs
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2012
Icebergs are formed when large blocks of ice breaks off from glaciers ice shelf and is floating in open water. Because glaciers are built up...
Captain Robert Scott’s Hut in Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2011
Robert Falcon Scott’s hut is located on the north shore of Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was erected in 1911 by the ill-fated ...
The Secret of the Blood Falls of Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2010
From a crack in the Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica flows a curious blood-red colored water. When it was first disco...
Port Lockroy Museum and Post Office in Antarctica
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 8, 2010
Port Lockroy is a natural harbour on the Antarctic Peninsula of the British Antarctic Territory. Originally discovered in 1903 by a French A...
Welcome to the South Pole
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2008
Just like the welcome sign you see whenever you enter a city, a visitor to the South Pole is greeted by a sign too. This sign is located nea...
