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Fire and Ice in Kamchatka
The guys over at letsbewild.com have made one the photos from our expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula as their ‘travel photo of the day‘! Fantastic news, and well worth checking out the rest of their website for bucketfuls of inspiration to get out there and explore, or even to submit your own photos. Photo description:
Read moreWhat are the Russians hiding?
There are not many places that Google Earth don’t allow the public to view, but in a remote section of Russia’s Far East one small section of mountains in Chukotka has been intentionally blurred. On Yahoo Maps the scene is similarly hidden from sight, this time with a more blatant black box. The nearest settlement, [...]
Read moreThe Greenland Ice Sheet
Off the back of the BBC’s Frozen Planet, Alun Hubbard asked me to create a website detailing the research him and his team are carrying out on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The site is now up on the university webpages at www.aber.ac.uk/greenland and encourage everyone to have a look. As well as presenting the various scientific projects, [...]
Read moreWhen glaciers attack
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_pg5gi2PI ‘…miraculously, no-one is killed.’ The Miage Glacier, on the Italian side of Mont Blanc.
Read moreEverest from space
GeoEye (a commercial satellite firm) have released images for their 2011 calendar. The pictures are all shot from space, and offer some remarkable views in amazing detail – this shot of Everest is my favourite (recommend viewing the high-res version). Considering the military is their biggest customer, I can’t help imagine that we’re getting ever [...]
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