Week 41 at the Pole

By Jean DeMerit — Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 3:00pm
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 3:00pm

Surprisingly, this is at the South Pole -- in the greenhouse.
F. Pedreros, Icecube/NSF

Greenery, and flowers, … this doesn’t look like much like the South Pole. But this photo was taken at an important place in the South Pole station—the greenhouse. If it weren’t for the greenhouse, they wouldn’t have any fresh vegetables during the long winter. They can have extra-large pretzels, though, greenhouse or not. And that’s just what they did to celebrate Oktoberfest. Someone even came prepared to the Pole with his lederhosen.

Giant pretzels.
B. Kuo Tiong, Icecube/NSF

Celebrating Oktoberfest with giant pretzels.

NSF/F. Pedreros

Talking about Oktoberfest.
B. Kuo Tiong, Icecube/NSF

 

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