6 | Arriving in the Central Transantarctic Mountains

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Antarctic Dinosaurs
Transantarctic Mountains
Submitted by Peter Makovicky on Sun, 12/19/2010 - 14:08

Paleontologist Pete Makovicky shows what it’s like to land on an ice runway in the Central Transantarctic Mountains and gives a quick tour of the team’s remote science station where camped in a tent near Beardmore Glacier. This is the sixth in a series of video reports documenting the team’s daily life and fieldwork during their expedition to Antarctica.

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