Dave, Roger, Helen, and Helga braving the winds in Hall Basin.
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Roger, Dave, Helen, and Helga posing at the entrance to Petermann Fjord; the view is to the south-west.
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Helen is almost blown away, the coast is the southern "wall" of Petermann Fjord.
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The winds race down Petermann Glacier from the left (east) to the right.
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Note the whipping antenna, Kap Pussy in the background to the left.
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Kap Pussy flanked by two small outlet glaciers.
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Now looking into Petermann Fjord, the glacier is far in the distance (east).
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David Huntley on top of the bridge of the USCGC Healy.
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Gravity balances the pressure gradient, fun to lean into the (katabatic) winds.
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Helga Schaffrin of NYU keeping warm.
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Kap Pussy with two small outlet glaciers from the Greenland ice sheet.
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Dave and Helga.
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A much more stable (and warmer) way to take pictures into the wind.
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The southern walls of Petermann Fjord. The ice toung of the glacier comes into view in the distance.
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The northern wall of Petermann Fjord with the ice tongue of the glacier in the distance.
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Kap Pussy up close.
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Peterman Glacier in the distance to the east.
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One of the two "tiny" outlet glaciers emtying into Petermann Fjord.
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The second of two "tiny" outlet glaciers spilling over the side walls into Petermann Fjord; Kap Pussy to the right.
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Zooming into a small outlet glacier to the east of Kap Pussy; Glacier ice in the foreground.
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Petermann Glacier meets Petermann Fjord, a tidewater glacier, one of 5 major outlets of the Greenland ice sheet.
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Tidewater Petermann Glacier, a 5-m vertical wall of ice above the water.
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The northern wall of Petermann Glacier, the Greenland ice sheets spills over the walls of the fjord.
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Looking back along the southern wall of Petermann Fjord. Kap Lucie Marie in the distance to the south-west.
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The foredeck of the USCGC Healy steaming towards the northern wall of Petermann Fjord along the floating tongue of Petermann Glacier.
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