To supplement today's quadruple interview, here are a few extra pictures from the land that time forgot to make warm. Think of it as the chill-out room for the screaming technicolor candy rave of tonight's election coverage.This is bustling McMurdo Station. Just a quick five-hour flight from New Zealand.Ernest Shackleton's hut is across the sound from McMurdo, at the foot of volcanic Mt. Erebus. They've kept it more or less how it appeared 99 years ago, like an Antarctic Pioneer Village. Dude liked his syrup.You see this halo around the sun pretty much any time it's sunny. It's caused by all the ice crystals hanging in the air.Cape Crozier's on the other side of the mountains from McMurdo. It's where all the penguins are.These are Adelie penguins. We wish there was some cool fact we could tell you about them, but they're just kind of cute and smallish. That's it.Oh wait, here's something. Their species is roughly 19 million years old, which makes them 95 times older than us (people). How bout that? Anyways, this is them walking on their teensy little footsies.
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