Scientists watch total solar eclipse in Antarctica

People on the Earth's southernmost continents witnessed a solar eclipse on Sunday.

Spectators in Antarctica, parts of Australia, southern New Zealand and southern Argentina and Chile saw the moon shade the sun.

Scientists in Antarctica bundled up to see the continent's rare total eclipse of the sun.

Eclipse-watchers on the U.S.-run McMurdo Station and New Zealand's Scott Base used x-ray glasses to protect their eyes.

Solar eclipse chasers, scientists, amateur astronomers and tourists chartered planes from Melbourne, Australia and Punta Arenas, Chile, for a spectacular view.

University of Arizona astronomer Glenn Schneider calls himself an umbraphile (shadow-lover).

The shadow-lovers "will drop whatever they are doing and trek by plane, ship, train, foot, and camel-back to gather along a narrow strip in some remote God-forsaken corner of the globe," he said in a release.

Schneider helped flight crews navigate through the moon's shadow during totality, when the moon completely blocks the sun.