Icebergs

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Icebergs are formed through two major paths. First, they form when a glacier calves and it calves into water. The iceberg is then able to float away. However, there are large ice shelves in the Antarctic and sections of those shelves break off in the spring and summer. These are called “tabular” icebergs. They look like a floating table top with vertical sides. Recalling that only 10 percent of any iceberg can be seen above water. We passed tabular icebergs that we as high as seven or eight stories and were upwards of 10 square city blocks across - and that’s what was visible above water.

Icebergs and glaciers have a distinct blue color. Sometimes is it a light blue and sometimes a deep blue. This results from the fact that glaciers and ice shelves put the ice under intense pressure and as a result only the “blue” color is the only spectrum color that can be reflected. They are quite a site.

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Gerlache Strait

Gerlache Strait

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Dallman Bay

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Flanders Bay

Flanders Bay

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay

Lemaire Channel

Lemaire Channel

Brown Station (Argentina), Paradise Cove

Brown Station (Argentina), Paradise Cove

Crabeater Seals on an Iceberg in Neumeyer Channel

Crabeater Seals on an Iceberg in Neumeyer Channel

Neumeyer Channel

Neumeyer Channel

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Tabular Iceberg, Drake Passage

Gerlache Strait

Gerlache Strait

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Dallman Bay

Dallman Bay

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Tabular Iceberg, Dallman Bay

Flanders Bay

Flanders Bay

Flanders Bay

Flanders Bay

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay

Andvord Bay

Lemaire Channel

Lemaire Channel

Brown Station (Argentina), Paradise Cove

Brown Station (Argentina), Paradise Cove

Crabeater Seals on an Iceberg in Neumeyer Channel

Crabeater Seals on an Iceberg in Neumeyer Channel

Neumeyer Channel

Neumeyer Channel

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