Steen V. Mogensen
                      email: mogensen@bellsouth.net

Updated 16-October-06

Where in the world are we?
 
Home First of all .. Antarctica is not up .. it is down! For some reason, many people tend to get the Arctic and the Antarctic mixed up. The Arctic is in the north, the Antarctic is in the south.

An other thing which gets mixed up on a regular basis is the wildlife. No .. there are no Polar Bears in Antarctica and there are no Penguins in the Arctic! So when you see the advertisements for Coca-Cola with Penguins and Polar Bears together you can be certain that it happens in a ZOO somewhere, not in the wild.

To get to the field camp for this project we need to travel to a place called Ross Island which is located in the Ross Sea just off the coast of Antarctica. If you look at the globe or a map, you will find the Ross Sea south of New Zealand, which is also our gateway to the Antarctic continent.
 
 
Maps:  (Click on the maps to open a larger version)
 
  (map coming soon) The Antarctic continent.
 
Ross Island map. The study area is in the lower left section of the map.
 
Detail map of the actual study area. You will see some of the location names I mention in the text.
 
(The maps are public domain, courtesy of USGS)
 
 
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