Tag: Prince Gustav Ice Shelf

• Journey to the Antarctic: James Ross Island (1982)

  

  We left the Falkland Islands behind us and headed south into the infamous Drake passage. I was on the RRS John Biscoe, heading eventually to the South Orkney Islands, but depositing first, scientists and other support personnel, in various locations on the Antarctic Peninsula. Very few cruise ships visited the Antarctic in 1982, I was…

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  April 5, 2020

  Antarctica, Travel

  Antarctic Peninsula, BAS, British Antarctic Survey, ice shelves, James Ross Island, King George Island, Prince Gustav Ice Shelf, RRS John Biscoe, South Shetland Islands, Trinity Peninsula