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Huge tabular icebergs floating in the open waters of the Antarctic Sound - the "iceberg" alley - and the Weddell Sea. There are also some beautiful non-tabular icebergs around Paulet Island - including one that had just rolled over.
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Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen took the photos from a research ship 660 miles north of the Antarctic. The brown and black stripes you see on the icebergs are created by sediment underneath the ice shelf. Blue ice is the result of compressed snow and a lack of air bubbles.