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Icebreaker Timelapse

May 062013

Cassandra Brooks was on an icebreaker boat traveling through the Ross Sea, Antarctica for two long months. The entire time, the special camera on top of the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker has recording constant footage.

She condensed the extended film into this epic five minute time lapse that has gone viral over the weekend, amassing over 100,000 views. Cassandra narrates the video, discussing all the different types of ice and scenery she and her team encountered in a soft and calming voice.

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Penguin Highway in Antarctica

Feb 112013

Melissa Brennan had the amazing opportunity to travel across all seven continents, including frigid Antarctica. While on the icy continent she set up her GoPro camera by a ‘penguin highway,’ and recorded the interesting example of organized nature.

She uploaded her video a month ago, but it has only gone viralviral now, appearing on SayOMG, VideoSift, DailyOfTheDay, and Arbroath.

Adorably, the flightless-birds seem to act like cars in traffic, lining up one by one and even stopping and looking both ways before crossing the ‘intersection.’

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Largest Glacier Breaking, Calving Ever Caught On Film

Feb 032013

Glacier calving is the extraordinary natural event when ice glaciers break or disrupt in an extravagant way.

As a promotion for the new Chasing Ice documentary, We Are Exposure published this video of the reportedly ‘largest glacier calving ever filmed‘ back in December, but it has only started to trend now, acquiring over 500,000 views in the past week.

Just how much ice was disrupted during the event that lasted for 75 minutes? The same amount as if the entire lower part of Manhattan broke off from the rest of the island.

The event is really too grand for the human mind to fully comprehend.

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Photographer In Protective Box Has Close Encounter With A Polar Bear

Jan 062013

Photographer Gordon Buchanan traveled to the Arctic to document a polar bear family for the BBC2‘s upcoming special, My Polar Bear Family and Me.

While in a special protective cage similar in concept to an above ground shark cage, a very hungry polar bear caught a whiff of his scent.

Though she never ended up breaking into the ‘ice cube,’ her vicious 45 minute attempt “was one of the most terrifying things that I’ve ever done,” reports the Scottish artist.

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Enormous Iceberg Flips Over Near Argentina

May 302012

You know when you have some ice in your drink while enjoying a summer picnic and the ice seems to flip over by itself? That’s because the exposed ice melts faster than the submerged part, slowly altering the center of gravity until the cubes flip.

The same concept occurs in nature, just on a much grander scale. Osibaruch caught this amazing ultra rare footage of an enormous iceberg near Argentina flipping over after a large chunk just fell off.

The video is featured on SayOMG, TheAustralian, and YouTubeTrends.