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Antarctica
2.12.2014 Aboa Research Station, Antarctica.
Greetings from Antarctica.
On Friday, 29th Nov., we started our journey toward Aboa research
station at Queen Maud land, Antarctica. After reasonably long flight
via Munich we arrived to Cape Town on Saturday morning. The next
day we went for a field trip to see penguins and the Cape of Good
Hope. We also saw several wild ostriches, baboons, and other weird
animals on the way there.
On Monday, we went for an obligatory flight briefing at ALCI
(Antarctic Logistic Center International) after which Tuija climbed
on the Table Mountain with a few other team members. Meanwhile,
Mikko focused on dining. In the evening we had the last dinner
including some fresh vegetables with generous ALCI people, the
weather was supposed to be fair for flying to Novo runway the next
day.
On Tuesday evening we were packed to Russian operated Iljushin IL-
76 cargo plane and headed south. We flew over night, and arrived on
Wednesday at 1:00 UTC in Novo Airbase, Antarctica. Light was so
unbelievable bright with the midnight sun reflecting from the infinite
glacier. At Novo, cargo was unloaded from Iljushin for the next flights
toward our final destination and we had an opportunity to sleep for an
hour or two. At 5:00, roughly half of our team including us two started
the next phase of our journey. This time we flew with Canadian pilotguys
in a Basler ski-plane, modified from over a 60 year old DC-3, to
the German research station Neumayer, since the plane would have
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