The Washington Post has put up a very interesting article about one of the Earth’s most over-looked continents, Antarctica. What you will find at the site is a collection of breath-taking images of snow, rock, blue skies, and explorers as well as videos and sound bites from the expedition. Many of which end up looking digitally altered due to the empty and open views created of raw, natural landscapes.
Also of note is the excellent flash presentation of the content, with excellent UI and decent load times it really stands out to me as top-notch. The ability to skip a slideshow and instead scroll through images at your leisure is necessary these days, and I was happy to find it here. In addition there are details of each image to explain precisely what you’re looking at. The entire site really lets you know that Antarctica is one of the most beautiful, and still supremely natural, places left on the planet. While man might go there, with a population of 4,000 in the summer months and only 1,000 during the winter, it will be quite a long time before we’ve managed to desolate it.
There is a lot of fantastical imagery that I really did not expect to see, and I hope you all enjoy it!
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/science/interactives/antarctica/index.html
Antarctica = Hoth