Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Research Station, Dumont d'Urville, Ile des Petrels, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adelia), Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), in front of an iceberg, Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, Polar Regions

View of the runway at Santos Dumont Airport (SDU) in Rio with Sugarloaf Mountain in the background, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America

Pack ice, Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Airport santos dumont, rio de janeiro, brasil

A few weeks after the start of the summer campaign, the winterers who have just spent 14 months at Concordia return home. They take off from Concordia station aboard the Basler;photo), bound for Mario Zucchelli or Dumont d'Urville. Most of them make a sign indicating the village or town where they live, and the distance to Concordia. Concordia Antarctic Base

The expeditionaries bound for Cap Prud'Homme and Dumont d'Urville, in front of the Basler that will take them there. It's worth noting that some of them are wearing the blue garment normally worn for Concordia: this is because it's warmer and contains more down, which is no luxury at the start of the summer season. A matter of habit and personal preference. The buildings of the Mario Zucchelli base can be seen in the background. Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica

Team of Antarctic expeditionaries watching the landscape through the windows of the Airbus A320 carrying them from Hobart;Tasmania) to Mario Zucchelli;Italian coastal Antarctic base), as they approach the latter. These are the first summer campers. In red are those who will then take a Basler to the French coastal summer station of Cap Prud'Homme or Robert Guillard. They'll spend a few days opening it up and warming it up, before moving on to the Dumont d'Urville base;6km from Cap Prud'Homme), marking the end of wintering there. In blue: the expeditionaries bound for Concordia.