Tag: Damoy Point

• Journey to the Antarctic: The Antarctic Peninsula (1982)

  

  Continuing my journey aboard the British Antarctic Survey ship, RRS John Biscoe, in 1982, we left James Ross Island, heading around the Antarctic Peninsula towards Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. Our first destination was to be Damoy Point, a transit point, where personnel and stores were unloaded and then flown further south to the BAS research…

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  April 8, 2020

  Antarctica, Photography, Travel

  Anvers Island, BAS, British Antarctic Survey, Damoy Point, De Havilland Twin Otters, Gento penguins, Pygoscelis papua, RRS John Biscoe