Paulet Island & Brown Bluff
Hi! Guys it is a cold day today! Yes, this is truly Antarctica. We better stay together and wait for better times to come.
Some Adelie chicks huddling together in a creche, through a snow blizzard at Paulet Island in the Erebus & Terror Gulf. The chicks have now reached the age and size where they can deal with the environment while both parents are out to find food: more krill!
As we landed at Paulet Island, which houses a huge colony of Adelie Penguins it was really cold and snowy. James Ross named the island as he sailed in these waters 1843. It is also a very important historical site. It was here that captain Larsen was able to rescue his men after the ship Antarctica was crushed in the sea ice in February, 1903.
Larsen was the master onboard the ship which took the Swedish Antarctic Expedition to Snow Hill and on his attempt to collect the expedition, after the first successful overwintering on the eastern side of the Peninsula, the ship sank about 45 nautical miles east of Paulet island.
We saw the remains of the hut and felt very humble as we left the island to have a big lunch onboard M.S. Endeavour. Larsen and his men had to survive on penguins for almost nine months!
During the afternoon captain Karl Lampe gave us an interesting ride through some un-charted waters, a true expedition. The Endeavour sailed between Anderson and Jonassen Islands, most likely the first ship ever to do this. Both islands are named after members of the Nordenskjöld expedition, 1902-03.
The afternoon was spent at Brown Bluff, a continental landing. There are not too many places on the Antarctic Peninsula you actually can make a landing on the continent. Brown Bluff also houses a huge Adelie colony and also Gentoo penguins and the best of all for any keen birder a few nests of the magical snow petrel. This bird is totally confined to the ice and it is very hard to find a nest. We had two birds incubating eggs under a huge boulder.
Time to set sail for new adventures and leave the eastern part of Antarctic Peninsula behind.
Hi! Guys it is a cold day today! Yes, this is truly Antarctica. We better stay together and wait for better times to come.
Some Adelie chicks huddling together in a creche, through a snow blizzard at Paulet Island in the Erebus & Terror Gulf. The chicks have now reached the age and size where they can deal with the environment while both parents are out to find food: more krill!
As we landed at Paulet Island, which houses a huge colony of Adelie Penguins it was really cold and snowy. James Ross named the island as he sailed in these waters 1843. It is also a very important historical site. It was here that captain Larsen was able to rescue his men after the ship Antarctica was crushed in the sea ice in February, 1903.
Larsen was the master onboard the ship which took the Swedish Antarctic Expedition to Snow Hill and on his attempt to collect the expedition, after the first successful overwintering on the eastern side of the Peninsula, the ship sank about 45 nautical miles east of Paulet island.
We saw the remains of the hut and felt very humble as we left the island to have a big lunch onboard M.S. Endeavour. Larsen and his men had to survive on penguins for almost nine months!
During the afternoon captain Karl Lampe gave us an interesting ride through some un-charted waters, a true expedition. The Endeavour sailed between Anderson and Jonassen Islands, most likely the first ship ever to do this. Both islands are named after members of the Nordenskjöld expedition, 1902-03.
The afternoon was spent at Brown Bluff, a continental landing. There are not too many places on the Antarctic Peninsula you actually can make a landing on the continent. Brown Bluff also houses a huge Adelie colony and also Gentoo penguins and the best of all for any keen birder a few nests of the magical snow petrel. This bird is totally confined to the ice and it is very hard to find a nest. We had two birds incubating eggs under a huge boulder.
Time to set sail for new adventures and leave the eastern part of Antarctic Peninsula behind.
