Facts, news, and interesting stuff
December 18th, 2007 — Ice, Orca, Seal, Video, Whale
Continuing my theme of cold, snow and ice, I thought I would post this video. It shows a group of orcas hunting a seal.
The seal has taken refuge on an ice flow where it is assumed that he is out of the reach of the orcas. But the orcas, working together, use large waves to sweep the seal off the ice flow and into the water. Very interesting to watch them working together on this.
Via Spluch: Orca Attack Seal with Waves
August 16th, 2007 — Alaska, Caves, Glacier, Glacier Caves, Ice, Nepal
The virtual cave has an amazing gallery of ice cave pictures from the mountains of Nepal and Alaska. Some of them are absolutely breathtaking.
Check them out at The Virtual Cave: Glacier Caves
If you want more Ice photos, check out Dry Valleys of Antarctica or the Harbin Ice Festival
July 31st, 2007 — Antarctica, Ice, Ocean, Photos, Sea
Found this amazing photo essay of marine life living under the Antarctic Ice flows. The photographer, Norbert Wu, worked in Antarctica from 1982 to 1996. He took these off of the coast of Antarctica in partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation. The photos in the slide show and more are available in his book, Under Antarctic Ice.
Check out the slide show at Time magazine: Life Beneath Antarctic Ice
If you want more photos of Antarctica, check out Dry Valleys of Antarctica
June 9th, 2007 — China, Harbin, Ice, Snow, Songhua Jiang
Found this site with some amazing pictures of the ice and snow sculptures in the Harbin Ice festival. Teams come from all over the wold to compete in both snow and ice sculptures. Whole buildings are built using ice cut from the local river, Songhua Jiang.
Check out the site: Harbin Snow and Ice Festival
Wikipedia article on the festival: Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival
April 10th, 2007 — Antarctica, Ice, Photos
Found an incredible slide show of pictures taken in the “Dry Valleys” area of Antarctica. The picture above is of one of the clearest frozen lakes in the world. Most of these valleys get very little snow fall, but almost all of them have significant ice in them. So I’m not sure how “dry” they are, but I guess that in comparison to other areas of Antarctica they seem dry. You can read all about the dry valleys here.
You should also check out the slide show Washington post: Exploring Antarctica The slide show has some truly amazing pictures, as well as captions and brief descriptions.
The photographer who took the pictures also has a website here.
