Discovering Antarctica
Discovering Antarctica
A young seismologist's first trip to Antarctica
About the Book
I had the immense privilege to travel several times to Antarctica as part of my early career as a research seismologist. During the first of these voyages, from end of December 2007 to February 2008, I kept a blog - Sismordia - Seismology at Concordia - mostly in order to let my family and friends know how I was. Shortly after returning, I compiled the blog posts into a photo book, that you can download for free.
This book is a full re-write of the blog posts and the photo book, and includes previously unpublished images. Unless noted, all photographs in this book were taken by JY, AD or myself.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Foreword
-
Approaching Antarctica
- Visiting Hong Kong
- Astrolabe
- New Year’s celebrations on the Astrolabe
- Into the howling fifties
- Antarctic convergence
- From the fifties to the sixties
- First ice
- Midnight arrival at Dumont d’Urville
-
Concordia (Dome C)
- Dumont d’Urville pit-stop
- Still at Dumont…
- Concordia at last
- Day one at Concordia
- Playing in snow
- All about a stove
- Seismology in the freezer
- CASE-IPY : first week at Concordia
- The seismology tent
- Skidoo time
- Presenting JY…
- Calcetto or Baby-Foot?
- Sock jumping at Concordia
- Visiting Germans
- CASE-IPY : first station installed
- CASE-IPY : second station installed
- Only 36 hours to go…
- Goodbye Concordia
-
Dallying in Dumont d’Urville
- Dumont d’Urville, tourist destination?
- Seals on sea ice
- Sunday tour
- Windy weather
- Electricity
- Snow!
- Fishing expedition
- Community life
- Prawn cocktail anyone ?
- Adelie Chicks
- The Astrolabe is back
- Spot the birdie
- Departure from DDU
-
The return to civilization
- First day at sea
- Second day at sea
- Third day at sea
- Land ahoy
- Hobart - last day
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