The Honnörbrygga Glacier in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica in 1937 compared to a modern Landsat satellite image from 2023. | Mads Dømgaard / Norwegian Polar Institute
A seaplane attached to a boat that was used to take aerial photos on the 1937 Antarctica expedition. | Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø PhD student Mads Dømgaard leads the team from the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen and traveled to Tromsø where they reviewed 2,200 photos taken by the Norweigan whaling team and cross-referenced those with images taken of the same glaciers by an Australian survey in the latter part of the 20th century.
The Stinson Reliant seaplane that had an automatic Zeiss camera mounted to the floor. | Norweigan Polar InstituteWhat the researchers found is a rare, positive anomaly when it comes to climate change: the photos show that ice in East Antarctica has been stable and has even grown slightly due to increased snowfall.