After 5 days of
cruising along the peninsula, with excellent weather and many more breathtaking views, we finally arrived at Rothera Research Station, my home for the next 30 months.
Not exact matches
In far less hospitable waters
along the Antarctic
peninsula, a
cruise ship, the MV Polar Star, became the latest in a string of vessels getting into trouble way down south, in this case hitting an uncharted rock yesterday near Detaille Island.
There's also a LTER
cruise in Western Antarctica in January and February that gives us not only temporal consistency, but an important spatial context since the
cruise performs science experiments
along different transects as it moves down the
peninsula.