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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Eleven: Aspects of Antarctica – a travel photo-essay > Waterboat Point, Paradise Harbor, Antarctica, 2004
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06-JAN-2004

Waterboat Point, Paradise Harbor, Antarctica, 2004

The only people who live and work in Antarctica are researchers employed by various governments. At Waterboat Point, we visited a Chilean research station and the thousands of Gentoo Penguins and Blue-eyed Cormorants swarming over its grounds and buildings. Shot from the distant deck of our cruise ship, this research station is dwarfed by the frozen landscape that surrounds it. I waited for a Zodiac to reach a spot halfway between the iceberg in the foreground and the station’s landing area before I made this photo.

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Phil Douglis10-Sep-2006 17:44
You are right, Christine. Take a look at this photograph:http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/25453214
Christine P. Newman10-Sep-2006 17:20
And I have read somewhere that every construction there is done in bright colours (red, yellow) because everything around there is so white all the time that it becomes depressing for people who do research in Antarctica.
Phil Douglis09-Sep-2006 03:02
At last, this very special image receives a comment from a very special photographer. That research station has been sitting here on this page for more than two and a half years, and you are the first to notice its incongruity in this setting and how vulnerable it seems at the foot of that vast glacier. Thank you, Christine, for these observations. I would also call your attention to that tiny boat working its way towards land. It tells us just how enormous this snowscape really is.
Christine P. Newman09-Sep-2006 02:51
What is interesting here, in my opinion, is that the research station seems out of place. It looks vulnerable as if the glacier behind could crash it at any moment.
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