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AT 77 images Created 17 May 2021

AT - Antartica - Tourism
Description: Early tourism in Antarctic Peninsula and Ellsworth Mountains.
Details: Photos captured in Antarctica, Falkland Islands from 1987 to 1989 

This is part of the AlpenImage Photography Archive, a vast image collection from around the world shot by Gordon Wiltsie. For more information about this gallery, or to browse the entire archive explore our interactive database at https://www.alpenimage.com/database
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  • The Argentine supply ship Bahia Paraiso (which sank in 1987) rests at anchor near Esperanza Base at Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Icebergs in southern Pacific Ocean off Antarctic Peninsula, near Hope Bay.
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  • A southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) stetches while napping on a beach at King George Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) battle over a harem on King George Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • Sea birds fly through fog by cliffs on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • Antarctica, Fog Over Gerlache Straits Antarctic Peninsula
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  • ANTARCTICA. Iceberg in Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula (background)
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountains above Paradise Bay, a popular stop for cruise ships on Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Glacier and icebergs, Paradise Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Nesting brown skuas (Catharacta antarctica) & moss above Paradise Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mossy slope above Paradise Bay, near Argentina's Almirante Brown Base,  Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mossy slope above Paradise Bay, near Argentina's Almirante Brown Base,  Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • Argentine scientists look after Almirante Brown Base in Paradis Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.  Years ago an over-wintering doctor burned down the main structures in hopes of forcing a rescue for himself.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Hut and glacier icefall at Argentina's Almirante Brown science base, Paradise Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Seals sleep on iceberg under mountains on Wienke Island, in South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • A coastal glacier calves into Gerlache Strait from Anvers Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Crevasses and calving seracs on coastal glacier, Anvers Island, South Shetland Islands.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Hikers on coastal glacier, Melchior Island, South Shetland Islands.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Coastal glacier & moon, Melchior Island.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Coastal glacier & moon, Melchior Island.
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  • SOUTHERN FUR SEAL (Arctocephalus gazella), Melchior Island, South Shetland Islands, near Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA. First-ever Antarctic tourist base at Patriot Hills, (80 degrees south) on polar icecap near Ellsworth Mountains. Photo taken in January, 1987, 1st year of operation.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Cross country skier below Patriot Hills, in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, at 80 degrees south latitude.  Mount Fordell background.
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  • Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.	An explorer drives an ATV across a shimmering bare ice glacier.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski expedition member parasails in katabatic winds on vast polar icecap near Ellsworth Mountains, at 80 degrees south latitude.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alejo Contreras Staeding parasails in katabatic winds on polar icecap near Patriot Hills at 80 degrees south latitude. Three Sails nunataks bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Southern tip of Ellsworth Mts. fades into vast polar icecap at 80 degrees south latitude. Three Sails Nunataks bkg.
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  • Sun and Lenticular clouds over a bare ice glacier near the Patriot Hills in Antarctica's southern Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Sun and lenticular clouds over a bare ice glacier near the Patriot Hills in Antarctica's southern Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Katabatic winds and orographic clouds pour over Mount Fordell, the Patriot Hills and southern Ellsworth Mountains.  In the foreground is a wind-polished bare ice glacier that is regularly used by expeditions to land large wheeled airplanes and is the site of both a private expedition base and a Chilean science station.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Bare Ice glacier near Patriot Hills in southern Ellsworth Mts. Mt. Fordell bkg.  (Bare ice is formed by incessant katabatic winds)
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  • ANTARCTICA. Lenticular clouds and spindrift snow above Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains. Note tiny hikers lower left.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Hikers on polar icecap below Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on bare ice glacier in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Fordell bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on bare ice glacier in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Fordell bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on first ascent of Mount Simmons in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Vast polar icecap background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mt. Vinson Massif (16, 059') Antarctica's highest summit. Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mt. Vinson Massif (16, 059') Antarctica's highest summit. Ellsworth Mts.
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  • High Peaks of the northern Sentinal Range of Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.  L to R: Mount Davis (snowy ridge,) Mount Bentley, Mount Sisu, Mount Anderson (left of deep col), Long Gables and Peak 4111meters (far right.)
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  • The northern Ellsworth Mountains rise above Antarctica's vast polar plateau.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Northern Ellsworth Mts., highest range on the continent.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Northern Ellsworth Mountains, highest range on the continent.
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  • FALKLAND ISLANDS, Magellenic Penguins near Port Stanley
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  • FALKLAND ISLANDS, Magellenic Penguins on beach near Port Stanley
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  • Black-browed albatross nest in a rookery above surf on West Point Island, part of the Falkland Islands.
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  • A black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) soars over the southern oceans near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • A black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) soars over the southern oceans near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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  • Southern Rockhopper Penguins nest in a rookery on West Point Island, part of the Falkland Islands.
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  • A Southern Rockhopper Penguin stands in a rookery on West Point Island, part of the Falkland Islands.
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  • A Southern Rockhopper Penguin emerges from tussock grass on West Point Island in the Falkland Islands.
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  • Southern Rockhopper Penguins stand near a rookery on West Point Island, in the Falkland Islands.
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  • A cruise ship floats at anchor off one of the Falkland Islands, with blooming gorse bushes in the foreground.
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  • A crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) rests on an Antarctic ice floe while an tour expedition ship floats nearby.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Adelie penguin rookery (one of world's biggest) on Paulet Island where hundreds of thousands of birds nest each austral spring. (Pygoscelis adeliae).
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  • ANTARCTICA. Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) sleeps on rocky beach on Paulet Island, near Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliaeon) and icebergs in Weddell Sea.
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  • Chinstrap penguins stand on a on beach at Deception Island, near Antarctica.
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  • Tourists soak in a hot spring on Deception Island near Antarctica. In the background zodiac rafts shuttle passengers back and forth from the ship,   Clipper Adventurer.
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  • Nick Wiltsie (MR) runs out of icy polar seas after soaking in hot spring on Deception Island, Antarctica.  The cruise ship Clipper Adventurer is anchored in the background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountains above Lemaire Channel, a top tourism destination separating the Antarctic Peninsula (lower left) from Booth Island, (background and right), which is often called "Kodak Gap."
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  • A polar guide steers his raft below towering seracs of a glacier that is calving into the Southern Atlantic Ocean in Paradise Bay, Antarctica.
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  • A zodiac driver from a cruise ships takes a few quiet moments below the calving face of a coastal glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
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