Antarctica Ice Chime 

Google Taditional Holiday Celebration (click on for series)

St. George NFS Pup Counts, 1975 - 2002 (click on)

Northern Fur Seal Pup. There are rookeries on St. George Island

The Nature Conservancy has an effort there (click on).

The St. Paul and St. George Islands northern fur seal population in the Pribilof Islands (click on) Archipelago is the largest among U.S. fur seal rookeries (Figs. 1-3) with an estimated 919,000 northern fur seals (York et al. 2000). Smaller breeding colonies are located on the Kuril Islands in Japan, the Commander Islands in Russia, Bogoslof Island in the southeastern Bering Sea, and San Miguel Island in the Channel Islands off California. Northern fur seals were designated as depleted in 1988 under the Marine Mammal Protection Act when it was determined they were below their Optimum Sustainable Population (OSP) level. Commercial harvesting of fur seals was discontinued on St. George Island in 1973 and on St. Paul Island in 1984; however, a subsistence harvest continues on both islands. There is no subsistence or commercial harvest on the remaining U.S. rookeries (Figs. 4 and 5).

NOAA and the Preserve America Inititative

December 21, 2006 - approaching solstice. This is winter in Alaska. The snow cover is far more sparse than Colorado.

St. George Island

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In animation, WIAS is under high heat of minimally over 0 C.

About half of the reporting stations are 'temperate' (0 C plus or minus 5 C) (click on). Vostok is very warm at -20 C with a humidity of 47%.

The solsitice occurred December 22, 2006 at 0022. The official calender seasonal changed is December 21. The actual soltice occurred only 22 minutes past the end of the day of December 21st. This is Antarctica's Summer.

The weather in Antaractica (Crystal Ice Chime) is: (Fifty year anniversary - click on)

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park ( Crystal Wind Chime) is:

Temperature 43 °F / 6 °C

Conditions Mostly Cloudy

Humidity 49%

Dew Point 25 F/ -4 C

Wind 17 mph/ 28kmh/ 7.7 m/s from the ESE

Wind Gust 29 mph/ 46 kmh/ 12.9 m/s

Pressure 28.89 inches/978 hPa

Windchill 35 F/ 2 C

Visibility 10.0 miles/ 16.1. kilometers

UV 0 out of 16

Clouds Mostly cloudy 4400 Feet/ 1341 meters
Mostly cloudy 6000 feet/ 1828 meters
(Above Ground Level)