A once in a life time opportunity [Easter Island solar eclipse]

For a brief 4:45 minutes, all was darkened in Chile’s Easter Island yesterday.

Some 8 thousand spectators looked up at the sky at 14.08 local time and admired one of astronomy’s most spectacular phenomenons: the decade’s first total solar eclipse.  

Even though this event did not eclipse the 2010 South Africa FIFA World Cup final, those who gathered round this small Pacific island and witnessed how the moon’s shadow completely covered the sun, said it was emotional, unforgettable and difficult to describe in words.

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The Ichthyosaur Cemetery in PATAGONIA

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Stinnesbeck et al[1]. (2010) The Ichthyosaur Cemetery.pdf (796 KB)

Some 120 million years ago, the ichthyosaurs died at the edge of the Tyndall Glacier.  Now, palaeontologists are getting to the bottom of how such mass mortality in such a confined space came about – looking for clues in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile

By Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Eberhard Frey and Marcelo Leppe Cartes

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Habbits: Change Habbits for reducing the Environmental Impact

‘Changing Habbits’ is a web application that represents the ecological track of our daily actions. From an ideal human figure, each part of the body change according to the environmental impact produced, resulting in a humanoid called ‘Habbit’.

http://www.changinghabbits.co.uk/

TRY IT!

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Chilean Slang… from A to Z

Chilean people, especially the youngest, contribute every day to enlarge the vocabulary of slang.

http://www.thisischile.cl/Articles.aspx?ID=1211&SEC=361&eje=Acerca&t=chilean-slang%u2026-from-a-to-z&idioma=2

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Take a look at the Ecocamp Patagonia Brochure

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