Deception Island Travel Blogs

WOOHOO FIRST LANDING OF THE EXPEDITION!!! I was so excited to get out of the boat. Our first landing at 4pm, it takes time to put on layers of clothes. After lunch, I grabbed my binoculars and my jacket to go outside to take photos entering Deception Island. There are only small amounts of sno…

Sunrise 02:55, sunset 23:01This morning our ship reached the South Shetland group of islands. Our destination was Deception Island,   a giant caldera from a volcano, it's more than 9 miles in diameter and shaped like a donut with an opening. The volano was last active in 1970. There were …

Date: 11-02-07 From: Hannah point  to Deception 09:45 Position         62˚55’72.S 060˚40’44.W Telefon bay 19:33 Position         62˚58’81.S 060˚33’7.W       Whalers bay Weather: Wind…

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Wednesday we arrived at Deception Island, one of the world’s safest natural harbours, even though it is still volcanically active. We did the most difficult landing so far, because it was very windy and we landed on a sandy beach. That meant the waves were getting into the zodiac while we were la…

From Dec 13 2008 till Jan 2nd I sailed in the Bark Europa to Antarctica peninsula and its islands and found out what a spectacular continent this is. So much stunning sceneries, wild life and untouched wilderness is nowhere else to be found in our world.

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