This was to be our last morning on land. I was filled with trepidation.This would be my goodbye to this fragile wilderness and hello to my fragile health.My health was fragile as we were to cross the Drake Passage after the landing.William Brown is anathema. He was born in the 18th century in Ireland, emigrated…
My Travels: Gentoos Being Born
The Vavilov had sailed on the north of the South Shetland Islands because thick ice prevented us entering the Antarctic Sound. Now we had turned and were sailing in the channel between the islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. On ether side of the ship rose towering black cliffed mountains with thick glaciers cutting the valleys…
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