APECS_Polarscience OP t1_je9lpjp wrote on March 30, 2023 at 12:39 PM

Reply to comment by Krisss_joss in AMA Session: Polar week Q&A!! We're the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), let’s talk about life and science in the polar regions. Ask Us Anything! by APECS_Polarscience

Hmm...I think the cabins on Svalbard, where you sometimes hide from the cold for lunch or to warm up before going on are pretty unique. In some you feel thrown back to very early days of polar exploration. I also found the ice caves of Svalbard quite strange and interesting. You crawl through a small hole in the ground and suddenly after a few meters you are in a 5 m high cavern of ice with a lot of different colors. And in Antarctica the Russian church is quite a strange thing to see.

Krisss_joss t1_jeefage wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:41 PM

That's a cool perspective, I imagine some of the structures up (or down 😂) there feel very "living", for lack of a better word. Like a super secret tree fort deep in the woods in which only a select few of each generation have contributed, improvised, and left scars in during their time.