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Category Archives: Travel
Half Moon Island
After leaving Arctowski, we sailed down the South Shetland islands, admiring the views: Our next stop was the tiny Half Moon Island, a scrap of land off the largish Livingston Island. Here some went off kayaking: While I went in … Continue reading
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Arctowski
Arctowski Station, on King George Island, is named after the Polish explorer, meteorologist, and inventor of the wind chill factor, Henryk Arctowski. It’s very Polish: At the landing site, we found 100% of the flowering plants of Antarctica, though neither … Continue reading
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Sightings
Our three days sailing from South Georgia to Antarctica proper were enlivened by several sightings. Having passed a small iceberg on the way to South Georgia, we now found ourselves confronting the more substantial tabular bergs. These are fragments of … Continue reading
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St Andrews Bay
Our farewell to South Georgia was made at St Andrews Bay. The expedition team kept us on the edge of our seats waiting to find out whether we would be able to land (it was their first landing at this … Continue reading
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Grytviken
Our last day at South Georgia began at Grytviken, the “capital”: an old whaling station, which has been cleaned up enough for visitors to wander around, plus a nearby British Antarctic Survey post. Most of the time, of course, it’s … Continue reading
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Stromness
In the afternoon, we parked at Stromness, which is a bit more mountainous that the original on Orkney: Like Grytviken (the following day’s stop), this is a whaling and Shackleton history site: this is where he came down to the … Continue reading
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Fortuna Bay
At South Georgia, the ship started to receive visits from Snowy Sheathbills: The red stains are blood, and the green is penguin poo, which gives you an idea of their diet: Fascinating fact #1: the sheathbill is the only Antarctic … Continue reading
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Salisbury Plain
After a couple of days at sea, we woke up to a rare, mostly-sunny day at South Georgia. The chance to see this island was one of the main reasons we’d booked this particular trip, and we were lucky enough … Continue reading
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Stanley
Our second and last day in the Falklands was spent in and around Stanley. The “town” is really a couple of streets, with cheerful houses behind: People are very British: We headed however for Cape Pembroke, just past the airport: … Continue reading
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West Point
Our first stop was West Point Island, in the Falklands. The landscape was very familiar for Scottish tourists: The main attraction was the colony of black-browed albatrosses and rockhopper penguins. The first sign that we were approaching was the … Continue reading
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