Saturday in Antarctica
Morning brought Petermann Island, site of an Oceanites Project field camp and home to Adelie and Gentoo penguins. Penguins were first counted and studied on Petermann almost a hundred years ago.
The afternoon’s grand zodiac excursion was in the Grandidier Channel. To quote Roald Amundsen, “Glittering white, shining blue, raven black, in the light of the sun the land looks like a fairy tale. Pinnacle after pinnacle, peak after peak, crevasses, wild as any land on our globe, it lies unseen and untrodden.”
