What was unusual or unique about Antarctica?
To me, the most unusual thing about Antarctica was the constant daylight. Back home in Ohio, I left for school at around 6:45 am in the dark and came home around 5:30 pm, also in the dark. I arrived at Palmer Station in early January and it never really got dark there. The sun set around midnight and rose again a few hours later. The time in between was dusk-like. This made it very difficult to sleep. It didn’t start getting even slightly dark until the first week of February. Another unusual thing was how noisy it was at night when I slept out in my tent. All night long I would be awakened by the thunderous clap of glaciers calving. There was also the intermittent belching of the seals that echoed across the harbor, and the waves crashing on the rocks below — sometimes making the pack ice and bergie bits smack against the rocks. Except for the colors of the sunset and sunrise, there are basically three colors in Antarctic landscapes — blue, black and white. It is amazing how beautiful
