Topic: Mcmurdo Station

Room With a View

Room With a View" is a morale trip here at McMurdo Station, and it sure worked. Near the end of the season people start to take these types of...
OF ALL the hills I have climbed, the one I remember most vividly is Observation hill in Antarctica, a mound of volcanic rock a mere 250 metres...

Tomorrow is Obscura Day!

You may recall our earlier post about the upcoming second annual International Obscura Day, and perhaps you've already made plans to attend one of...
I was on a quest of a lifetime. My girlfriend Milana and I boarded my private Gulfstream V jet known through the free world as Pompous One. It's the one that I love. White is the color of that continent so ...
This not-completely-flightlessbird just made connections over the weekend from Antartica?s McMurdo Station, viaJo?burg and Barcelona, to this decadent Mediterranean getaway. True to hisspecies, he didn?t much appreciate being in the air, but has now settled downof dermal pigmentation, this ...

Christmas in Antarctica

Because Antarctica is in the Southern Hemisphere, the opposite of America, they have a real Christmas in July Sale type of thing going on! However, there are 24 hours of daylight on Christmas Day.In addition, some years, Christmas is celebrated in ...

IceBite Blog: University Valley

NASA's IceBite project will spend three austral summers in Antarctica testing ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to Mars. In this third set of entries, she describes the team's return from Lake Joyce to McMurdo Station, and work at a ...
we board a large Air Force C-17 cargo plane with about 60 other people bound for the Antarctic and find ourselves in a cavernous aircraft designed for utility rather than creature comfort. for the five-hour flight and we are hopeful of landing ...

If You Go to Antarctica

The article describes life in Antarctica. People in Antarctica should also eat twice as much food to enable their body to survive extreme cold. Many of the scientists who go to Antarctica live at McMurdo Station.