No Snow in Antarctica?, a photo from Victoria Land, Greater

Photographer's Note

The Dry Valleys make up less than 5% of Antarctica and are so called because of the absence of snow on either the valley floors or walls. There is no snow fall here except for the peaks/ridges separating the valleys that rise to about 2000 meters.

The valleys were first formed by advancing glaciers from the ice-sheet that covers the rest of the continent. As the glaciers disappeared they left behind sub-glacial lakes on the valley floors. Pictured here is Lake Vanda, whose surface is perennially frozen.

Wind is the strongest force here and it has sculpted the rocks in all sorts of shapes as can be seen in the foreground.

Buin, Piotr_Angiel, hgupta, Elanor, maloutim, gildasjan, sayanwithsenice, linask has marked this note useful

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Buin (42580) 2008-02-01 7:50

Hallo Kaustubh!
What an amazing and breathtaking view - like on moon! This must be an unforgettable view and place as well. Including this wind sculpture wa very skillful and creates a wonderful depth here. Thank you for showing this!
Greetings from Germany!
Frank

hgupta (1323) 2008-02-01 8:49

Kaustabh,

Wonderful capture and good information. I always wanted to go to Antartica, can you help me with some information, how one can be there?
Regards,

Hemant

gildasjan (43826) 2008-02-02 12:02

Bonjour Kaustubh
Une belle composition avec un premier plan contrastй.Un bon cadrage et une belle lumiиre.
Bonne journйe
Cordialement
Gildas
Hello Kaustubh
A beautiful composition with a foreground well contrasted.
Good framing and a beautiful light.
Have a nice day Day
Cordially
Gildas

sayanwithsenice (758) 2008-02-08 4:27

HI !
Good framing and composition. Great to see this improovement with colors and contrast! Congrats!! The notes are very usefull! You have presented this one welL. Well done and thanks for sharing such details...

regards,
sayan

smarcell (19965) 2009-09-22 0:24

I am very interested by this picture, as I knew about this area in Antarctica, but I had never seen pictures about it. It is definitely a strange landscape.
I'll check your gallery which looks very promising.
Regards Stefano