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Gourdin Island
A Guano-Load of Penguins

January 27th 2019
Overnight the ship had steamed up the Antarctic peninsula, through the Gerlache and Bransfield straights, and close to the Antarctic Sound (named after a ship that sank there, not because of the continent, funnily enough). After breakfast, we headed out on another excursion, this time to Gourdin Island. Unlike the previous two days, the weather was not sunny. In fact, it was extremely foggy. As w ... read more
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3rd February 2019

Adorable
Nothing else to say. MJ

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