Tuesday, February 1, 2011

CRUISING ANTARCTICA-ADMIRALTY BAY(INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH STATIONS) AND ELEPHANT ISLAND-MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2011

We cruised Admiralty Bay in the morning and were supposed to transit Elephant Island in the afternoon, but the fog prevented this. Elephant Island is at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and is the place where the legendary Sir Ernest Shackleton and his group of men were stranded in 1915.
His ship "The Endurance" was at the forefront of a new Age of Exploration and he is considered to be a hero for his journey and all without a single loss life. He and his crew survived 10 months trapped in the ice over and Antarctic winter, dragged 3 boats, supplies, men and dogs across the ice for 23 weeks and rowed through freezing temperatures for 15 days in search of landfall. Sir Ernest Shackleton was a true legendary hero.

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