We passed a wide lake, the waves at its shore frozen into odd sculptural forms suggesting entrapment and desolation.
After a final visit to Hut Point on 11 March to pick up four early returners from the depot-laying parties, he brought the ship to Cape Evans and made it fast with anchors and hawsers, thereafter allowing it to become frozen into the shore ice.
The explorers were hopeful that, like a lake whose shores are frozen but whose middle is not, the Arctic Ocean might contain open water at its center.
So far, there has been very little oil and gas activity in the - often frozen – waters off the shores of the eight Arctic Circle countries (there has been plenty of onshore production but that is not nearly as high-risk).
If a guardian tags Willy before he/she reaches the shore, Willy is frozen in place again.
Witnesses last Sunday said that a man in his 20's walked out on the partly frozen Prospect Park Lake and ventured about 40 feet from shore, despite several "No Skating" signs.
Luxembourg has also frozen accounts worth $630m in the names of off-shore oil companies connected with two of Abacha's sons, Mohammed and Abba.
It is set around the shores of a beautiful lake that – when frozen – hosts sports such as golf, cricket, show-jumping and horse-racing.
About 20 miles from Vinh Long, up the first arm of the Mekong, Sa Dec ,where Ms. Duras grew up, looks frozen in time, a sleepy little town spread along the shore.
Some have been creative in packaging and marketing their products, such as the local Bomster family, whose scallops are flash frozen at sea and are in great demand when they reach shore.
