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Pretty Good for a Five-Species Day

Here’s another update from Hugh Powell: I’ve been in Antarctica for two weeks, traveled more than 800 sea miles, and enjoyed daylight the whole time. And yet my trip list is still well under 10 species. But what species they are! In addition to a warm jacket and a pair of convertible mittens, I brought [...]

Antarctica by iPhone

Our trusty blogger Hugh Powell has sent us an update: Hello from Antarctica! I’ve been here in the deep, deep south for 11 days, 2,000 miles south of New Zealand. I arrived on a C-17 jet at McMurdo Station, at the southern end of the Ross Sea—near where Captain Robert Falcon Scott launched his ill-fated [...]