This afternoon Caledonian Star called at Yankee Harbour, a sheltered bay in the southwestern corner of Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. It was our second Antarctic landing of the voyage, appropriately enough under a lowering sky, in a shower of fine snow, with sunshine breaking through from time to time. For Americans this is an historic site: Yankee Harbour was named for the American sealers of the early 19th century, who braved Antarctic storms in their search for sealskins and oil, explored these ice-bound islands, and were among the first to discover the Antarctic continent itself. This was a sheltered haven where they could rest and recuperate. Little remains of their enterprise, but a cast iron trypot --- used for boiling down seal blubber - in one corner of the beach, is a reminder of the industry that, almost two centuries ago, brought them from their New England homes. This gentoo penguin investigates a fragment of industrial archaeology.