by Audrey Benedict | May 11, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #42: Mother’s Day in Adélie Land It is “mud season” in the Adélie penguin colony at Cape Denison. As you can see in this ridge-perched colony of Adélies, sunny spring days have left a few lingering patches of snow. As I sat and watched, Adélie penguins...
by Audrey Benedict | May 9, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #41 (Mawson’s Australian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) Dedication and Biographical Notes: This ePostcard is dedicated to the extraordinary Antarctic exploration legacy of Sir Douglas Mawson (above) and expedition photographer Frank Hurley (photo #3,...
by Audrey Benedict | May 8, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #40: In the Footsteps of Douglas Mawson (Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, 2006) Cloud Ridge’s first trip to the Southern Polar Ocean in 2003 included the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. I knew that we would go back but that I...
by Audrey Benedict | May 6, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #39: Introducing the East Antarctic Ice Sheet I decided to travel south from the Subantarctic Islands and head to the East Antarctic for this next series of ePostcards—from megaherbs to the White Continent! Certainly a study in contrasts. With the East...
by Audrey Benedict | May 5, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard # 38: Megaherb Discoveries You know how much I enjoy questions! Yesterday’s ePostcard #37, Megaherb Mysteries, prompted lots of questions and encouraged me to dig into the most recent literature to find out what botanists are discovering about these...
by Audrey Benedict | May 4, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #37: Megaherb Mysteries Botanists continue to be puzzled by the prevalence of outsized leaves and flowers—the so-called megaherb flora—of the subantarctic islands. It is not known whether the megaherbs are relics of an ancient, more widespread flora that...
