OuiSi Nature card 193: Glacier Terminus. Photograph by Camille Seaman The whole photograph behind card 193: Glacier Terminus. Photograph by Camille Seaman

OuiSi Nature · Card 193

Glacier Terminus

Location
Neko Harbor, Antarctica
Date
December 8, 2007
Photograph byCamille Seaman

Description

All things lead towards their end, I am sure this glacier's massive edge has long since fallen into the sea returning to the great cycle from whence it came. The water that once fell as snow over the millennia was compressed into steel hard ice scraped and bumped along the terrain sculpting the land as it was heaved along under its mass until it reached this edge. Perhaps it will live briefly as an iceberg and in any case, it won't be long until it finds itself as rain or snow and perhaps ice once again some eons in the future.

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Camille Seaman

TED Senior Fellow, Stanford Knight Fellow, Cinereach FIR Fellow, Nat Geo Contributing Photographer

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Glacier Terminus

Photograph by Camille Seaman