Astronauts have said that the most distinctive feature of Earth as seen from space is Antarctica, which “radiates light like a great white lantern across the bottom of the world”. Its ice sheet is over 2km thick on average, contains more that 90% of the world’s ice and snow, and has an area greater …
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off to antarctica, the last continent
I’ve had a gut feeling for a few years now that I will eventually find my way to the kingdom of ice, but didn’t realize that I’d be lucky enough to do it (just) before turning 30.
a song of ice (and fire)
After a long and eventful day of exploring the Laki area (which I’ll cover in a future post) and just a couple of hours before seeing the northern lights, we found ourselves a the famous Jökulsárlón lake
