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Swirling white clouds blanket the image with thin edges giving a glimpse of the blue waters below. The right side of the image is labeled Scotia Sea. The middle of the left labels an iceberg in the region that has the thinnest cloud layer. A line of  islands spanning the image vertically is the point at which clouds begin to swirl as the density increases to the right.

Swirling Skies and Melting Icebergs

The remote South Sandwich Islands can disrupt passing clouds in ways that shed alternating rows of cloud spirals.

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