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William Smith, a British merchant, rounded Cape Horn in 1819 and was blown
south in a storm and first sighted South Shetland Islands, which are named
due to their similar latitude to Scotland's Shetland Islands by him
and naval Captain Edward Bransfield. This was considered for many
years as the first sighting of Antarctica, but it was later realised that a
German named Thaddeus Thaddevich von Bellingshausen, working for the Russian
navy, had unknowingly beaten them by three days! |
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Yankee Harbour |
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Yankee Harbour is on Greenwich Island
and is a natural haven formed by a natural curved spit, but appears manmade.
Named in the 1820's, because American sealers frequented the area.
There is a terraced gentoo penguin colony of around 4000 pairs. |
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Gentoo penguins (above with chicks) |
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Weddell seal |
Skuas |
Chinstrap penguin |
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Bransfield Straits |
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Pectral |
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Deception Island |
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This is a volcanic island and part of the wall of the caldera has collapsed
and the interior flooded to form an amazing natural harbour. The
entrance, known as Neptune's Bellows is very narrow and there is an
underwater rock to one side. |
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Chinstrap penguins |
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Whalers Bay was home to factory whaling ships
as early as 1905, and a shore station named Hektor was set up in 1912 to
process meat and bones left behind by the ships. This closed in 1931, but
was finally destroyed by a mudslide during the eruption, which lasted from
1967-69. |
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Remains of plant |
Remains of oil tanks. |
British base was built in 1941 |
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Penguins feed on Krill, which the catch at sea. They collect it and
bring it back to feed the chicks with. |
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Skua and chick |
Dolphin gull |
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Krill |
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Half Moon Island |
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Chinstrap penguins |
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Kelp gull |
How many chicks are there? |
Skua |
A
basking seal |
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Livingstone Island view from Half Moon
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A
lifeboat, but not ours! |
Southern giant Pectral |
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