5. Seymour and Snow Hill Islands
June 8th 2008 One morning on the 2008 voyage we awoke to find ourselves anchored within a zodiac's ride of Seymour Island on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsular. I had long been awaiting this moment because Seymour Island is unique in that the cretaceous/tertiary (KT) boundary, the boundary at 65 million years ago between the end of the age of the dinosaurs and the present age of the mammals, is cle
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