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Video of the Day: Antarctic baby seals
Mar 22nd, 2012 at 5:30PM:
Antarctica has been the subject of several Photo and Video of the Day posts in the last few months, but it's hard to resist adorable penguins and jaw-dropping icebergs. So sharing a video of baby fur seals frolicking in the sub-Antarctic was a no-brainer. National Geographic nomad and past Gadling contributor Andrew Evans is currently crossing oceans on a Cape (Horn) to Cape (Good Hope) trip and ...
Bowermaster's Antarctica -- Grytviken, South Georgia
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Mar 10th, 2009 at 11:00AM: In the whaling museum here the most fascinating thing to me – after the touch-me-feel-me penguin skin – are the trophies and sports uniforms worn by the different South Georgia whaling station teams which competed against each other in rugby, track and field, ski jumping and more during the heyday of whale killing here. Grytviken was South Georgia's first whaling station/factory, set ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- In the Footsteps of Shackleton
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Mar 2nd, 2009 at 11:00AM: Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Ernest Shackleton had an intimate relationship with South Georgia. He stopped here for a month in 1914 before sailing the "Endurance" to its crushing fate in Antarctica; a year and a half later with five others he sailed the gerry-rigged lifeboat "James Caird" 800 miles across the Scotia Sea to King Haarkon Bay, arriving on May 9, 1916; and in 1922 he returned, died and ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island
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Feb 19th, 2009 at 11:00AM: I saw South Georgia Island for the first time from about ten miles out, on a gusty, windy, blue-sky morning. Though we'd just sailed eight hundred miles east and north from the tip of Antarctica, giant tabular icebergs greeted us, nearly blocking the entryway to Cooper Bay. These big icebergs had broken off the Larsen Ice Shelf since 2002 and slowly made their way here, where they now sit ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- Crossing the Scotia Sea
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Feb 16th, 2009 at 11:00AM: When we left Elephant Island midday yesterday we formally left Antarctica behind. I've been to Antarctica many times since 1989 and every time I leave it in my trail, whether by C-130 cargo plane, small sailing boat or expedition ship it is with no small regret. It is a spectacular corner of the world that gets in your blood like no other I've experienced. Remote and foreboding it can also be ...
