Yes, they were shot in 75 - 77, mostly late 76. I suspect McMurdo has changed quite a bit as most of the older wooden buildings there have been replaced with more modern and more durable materials.
As for the terrain, I doubt there would be much actual change as the snow/ice accumulate and disipate every year. Antarctica is dryer than any desert on earth and also has very little precipative snow. 99 % of the snow that needs removing when a new summer season begins each year is from wind blown redistribution of the snow from other areas of the continent. Some of the hype that is reported as to global warming causing disaster with the Penguin rookeries is simply overblowing of changes in the coastlines due to sea water freezing and melting every year. It is a constant flux of changes every year that has been going on for tens of thousands of years. I understand that this current summer season saw some pretty thick ice in the McMurdo area that was tough to remove, yet other areas of the continent saw little to no ice buildup. It is all a matter of knowing the difference between "weather" and "climate". In the case of Antarctica, that difference is very hard to determine! Walt On 3/18/08, Micah B. Kleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walt: > > There are really terrific, especially the picture of the group of > penguins. As I recall from an earlier posting of yours, these are > from the 1970s, are they not? I wonder what that stretch of > Antarctica looks like now. > > Best, > > Micah > > On Mar 18, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Walter Hamler wrote: > > I won a SmugMug acount from our camera club, so I have created a > > gallery of my Antarctica slides. The link is > > > > http://walthamler.smugmug.com/gallery/4539586_fv7fM#267396792 > > > > There are about 74 images there now and I will add others as I have > > time. > > > > Cheers. > > > > Walt > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
