Recreation staff and volunteers in McMurdo offer several guided tours around the station into areas that are usually not accessible. On Friday, Henric Krawczynski, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Takashi Okajima, and I participated in a tour of the pressure ridges near Scott Base, the station of Antarctica New Zealand just a couple of miles from McMurdo. These pressure ridges form where the ice shelf and the sea ice collide. Without further ado, here are a few pictures.

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