Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctic Peninsula - 2004 - All Photos
Porthole photos of a Southern Ocean gale, shot from our cabin. |
Pintado petrels and a lone antarctic prion. |
In the contest for food stirred up by the ship's passage, the larger petrels shoulder the prions away from the inside track. |
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For several days after the storm, it was breezy on deck. |
Tabular ice in the Weddell Sea, formerly part of the Larsen Ice Shelf. |
Second officer looking over ice photos. |
Adelie colony on Paulet Island. |
Captain Carl Anton Larsen and his crew survived the winter of 1903-04 here, thanks to 1100 ancestors of this adelie penguin. |
A tipped-over tabular berg. |
Unlike gentoos, adelies nest on the beach. There are some 60,000 pairs of adelies on Paulet. |
In 1837, the French explorer Dumont d'Urville named this penguin for his wife, Adele. |
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