Antarctica Live: iceberg ahead! - video

As the Akademik Shokalskiy approaches the Antarctic coastline, the landscape changes dramatically. The sea becomes becalmed as it fills with pack ice, which the ship cuts through like a hot knife through butter. We sail up close to our first major iceberg and take an excursion by dinghy on the ice floes to say hello to some of the local wildlife, including crab-eater seals and Adelie penguins

Guardian journalists Alok Jha and Laurence Topham are with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Laurence Topham and Alok Jha
Length: 3min 47sec
theguardian.com
Monday 16 December 2013

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