Gentoo Housekeeper

Landing on the Ice

---

December 19th 2008
Friday 19th A 7am wake-up call told us the conditions made it too difficult to visit Brown Bluff, a piece of the Antarctic Continent rather than an island of. So, I fixed my eyes back to the pillow for a couple more hours. I even considered sleeping through breakfast, until I heard a scraping sound across the boat. I quickly jumped out of bed and opened the covers. I tried to pry my eyes open to ... read more

Antarctica » Antarctica

---

Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas sou... ... read more