PHOTOS: Brazil’s Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
March 27, 2014
A Brazilian Navy boat takes supplies to the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station seen from the Brazilian Navy's Oceanographic Ship Ary Rongel on March 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images ( 528420564 )
View of the skeleton of a Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in front of the Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. The skeleton was placed in 1972 by French researcher and scientist Jacques Cousteau as a memorial againts the killing of this species in the 20th century. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images ( 528420628 )
View of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz provisional military base from the Brazilian Navy's Oceanographic Ship Ary Rongel in Antarctica on March 7, 2014. The military base was destroyed by a fire that killed two soldiers on February 25, 2012. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420559 )
A penguin dives from an ice block in front of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420838 )
Scientist work near the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic station on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDAAFP/Getty Images ( 528420769 )
View of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station seen from the Brazilian Navy's Oceanographic Ship Ary Rongel on March 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images ( 528420572 )
Partial view at Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic station on March 10, 2014 showing crosses in memory of soldiers who died in mission. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDAAFP/Getty Images ( 528420751 )
Aerial view of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420638 )
A Brazilian Navy boat takes supplies to the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station seen from the Brazilian Navy's Oceanographic Ship Ary Rongel on March 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420578 )
View of penguins on an ice block in front of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420651 )
A Brazilian Navy boat takes supplies to the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station seen from the Brazilian Navy's Oceanographic Ship Ary Rongel on March 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420587 )
View from a hill of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic station on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420719 )
A Brazilian Navy boat takes supplies to the Brazilian base of Comandante Ferraz in Antarctica seen from the Brazilian Navy's Oceanographic Ship Ary Rongel on March 7, 2014. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images ( 528420830 )
Brazilian scientists work next to the skeleton of a Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), at the Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. The skeleton was placed in 1972 by French researcher and scientist Jacques Cousteau as a memorial againts the killing of this species in the 20th century. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420610 )
Brazilian scientist Antonio Batista Perreira speaks with journalists at the Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420617 )
Penguins swim in front of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420665 )
Aerial view of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420847 )
A penguin is seen amid ice blocks, in front of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antartic station on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420707 )
View of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420679 )
View of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420688 )
View of the skeleton of a Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in front of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic station on March 10, 2014. The skeleton was placed in 1972 by French researcher and scientist Jacques Cousteau as a memorial againts the killing of this species in the 20th century. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420733 )
View of Brazil's Comandante Ferraz base, in Antarctica on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420740 )
Brazilian Navy personnel work near the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antarctic station on March 10, 2014. AFP PHOTO / VANDERLEI ALMEIDA /AFP/Getty Images ( 528420779 )