The islands beyond the Lemaire Channel |
Lemaire Channel |
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Skua in flight |
The Lemaire Channel and the 980m ramparts of Booth Island |
Entering the narrows of the Lemaire Channel |
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The face of a Glacier on Booth Island |
Ice-caves at the base of the snow-covered glacier |
Emerging from the Lemaire Channel |
A pair of monster icebergs |
Argentine Islands |
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The sun breaks through to illuminate Hovgaard Island framed by the mist-covered mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula |
Icebergs glinting in the sunlight #1 |
Icebergs glinting in the sunlight #2 |
Heading off to shore again |
View across the drifts to the mountains of the peninsula |
Crossing Winter Island to visit Wordie House |
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Wordie House (closed 1954) |
The pantry stocked with original tinned food |
Kitchen and sleeping quarters |
Station meteorology laboratory |
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The channel near Wordie House |
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The "Ocean Nova" moored off the Argentine Islands |
Weddell seal showing a vague interest in the intruders |
Returning across Winter Island from Wordie House |
View across the channel to the Ukrainian research station - Vernadskiy - on Galindez Island |
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Young kelp gull in flight |
Looking deep into the mountains of the mainland |
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Petermann Island |
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Petermann Island |
Gentoo penguin on its nest of piled pebbles |
A group of nesting gentoos |
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Adelies nesting on a rock platform |
Mixed nesting colony of gentoo and adelie penguins and blue eyed cormorants |
Adelie penguins |
Gentoo penguin turning its egg |
The call of the wild gentoo |
Nesting blue-eyed cormorants |
The Argentine Antarctic supply ship adds a dash of colour |
Cormorant colony |
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The rounded dome of Hovgaard Island - our home for the night |
The fair Nello in front of our "Hilton Antarctica" accommodation |
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