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Weddell Sea & Antarctic Peninsula -
Walking Expedition Voyage
MLT31 March 14 -24, 2009 10 nights aboard Professor Multanovskiy
MOL29 Feb 27 - Mar 08, 2009 09 nights aboard Professor Molchanov
Day 1 Embark in Ushuaia.
Day 2 & 3 At sea.
Day
4 At Brown Bluff we land at the Antarctic Continent, near the young
of an Adelie Penguin colony, which have not left for the sea yet. We walk
along the coast and try to climb along a gentle slope to above the rim
of the cliffs.
At southeast Dundee Island, we walk to a landing strip for planes, used
by the American explorer Ellsworth, for the first over flight of the Antarctic
Continent in 1935. Here, there is an area where we can make an extensive
walk along the coast without disturbing the animals. Another historic
place is Paulet Island, where members of the Swedish Nordenskiöld
Expedition built a stone emergency hut in 1903.
Day 5 In the Weddell Sea, at Snow
Hill Island we land near another Swedish cabin from 1902.
Nearby Seymour Island, is completely ice-free, and famous for its fossils.
We will make a walk of about six hours along the coast from the southern
tip to the Argentinean Base Marambio. We will have a fantastic view of
the table icebergs in the Weddell Sea, while we get a glimpse into Antarctica's
much warmer past (fossils of leaves).
Day
6 On Devil's Island with penguin colonies, we walk around the island
and also climb to the middle ridge of just above 200 m. An alternative
for this walk is the 8 km long and 300 m high Beak Island in Dusen Bay,
which is also ice-free and close to the continent. Later on in the day
we will have a zodiac excursion along a glacier front on the Tabarin Peninsula.
Day 7 We land at Baily Head (Deception Island) near a Chinstrap Penguin colony, and walk to from there, in six hours to the deserted whaling station in Whalers Bay. If we cannot land at Baily Head due to high seas, we will directly sail to Whalers Bay and walk from Fumarole Bay to a Chinstrap colony at Vapour Col and back. We conclude the day with a bath in the warm sea at Pendulum Cove, where volcanic vents heat the water.
Day 8 & 9 At sea.
Day 10 Disembark in Ushuaia. (MLT31
on day 11 and includes one extra day in the Weddell Sea)