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Antarctica 2019 – Cruising the Seas & a Few Islands

After we made landfall at Brown Bluff, we were supposed to head to into the Antarctic Sound, but the weather and ice weren’t cooperating, so we headed to the Weddell Sea instead. This is where Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, got stuck in the ice (um, that didn’t happen to us). From the Weddell weContinue reading “Antarctica 2019 – Cruising the Seas & a Few Islands”

Antarctica 2019 – Arriving at the Frozen Continent

Apparently there are restrictions on how many people can make landfall on an Antarctica site at any one time, and that number – I think – is 100. So, our group of 150 or so guests was divided into two groups. Each group would have two “landings” per day (assuming a landing was being madeContinue reading “Antarctica 2019 – Arriving at the Frozen Continent”