In The Field
Antarctica 2010: Arrival in Christchurch
Posted on behalf of Chaz Firestone Greetings from Christchurch, the “garden city” of New Zealand, home to the United States Antarctic Program’s nearest base to the Antarctic ice sheet. Along with six other journalists, I will be escorted around Antarctica from 5-12 January by the US National Science Foundation, to report on the goings-on of the Seventh Continent. After today’s fitting for extreme cold weather gear, the week-long trip will take us to McMurdo Station (Antarctica’s largest community, at about 5,000 2,000 [Editor’s note: see comment below] researchers and staff), the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station, the windswept West Antarctica