Eating the penguin

Antarctica....the White Continent

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February 14th 2009
Well we´re back! We survived two storms on the Drake (called the Drake Shake), being hunted by a Leopard Seal, barked at by a Fur Seal, a mini Tsunami caused by a glacier calving and being covered in penguin shit (well Gordon shouldn´t roll around in it then.....)! All in all it was wonderful, the landscapes, the icebergs, the animals (although we only saw 2 types of penguins - storms at sea m ... read more

Antarctica » Antarctica

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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