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Photographer:
Ray
Boren
Summary Author:
Ray
Boren
On a fine midsummer day
at the edge of
Antarctica, a glaciated mountain casts its
reflection in the calm but icy waters of
Paradise Bay. This lovely harbor is on the western
coast of the
Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches north toward
South America. The inlet hosts two Antarctic research
stations: Argentina’s
Almirante Brown Antarctic Base (near where this
photo was taken) and Chile’s
Gonzalez Videla Antarctic Base. Both are now
occupied only during the Antarctic summer. Some of the
frozen continent’s earliest scientific research took
place in Paradise Bay in the early 1920s.
Thomas Bagshawe and M.C. Lester, members of a
British expedition who had intended to fly a number of
aircraft to the South Pole, were thwarted in that effort
but decided to over-winter at
Waterboat Point. Bagshawe subsequently penned the
first study of penguin breeding development after
studying the
gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) rookery
there. Research that is more recent has included
observing the development of the
ozone hole by tracking
ultraviolet solar radiation at Paradise Bay. Photo
taken on January 14, 2011.
Photo details:
Camera Maker: NIKON CORPORATION; Camera Model: NIKON
D60; Focal Length: 35.0mm; Aperture: f/10.0; Exposure
Time: 0.0031 s (1/320); ISO equiv: 100; Exposure Bias:
none; Metering Mode: Matrix; Flash Fired: No (enforced);
Orientation: Normal; Color Space: sRGB.
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