As the dark clouds of the last four weeks recede, I am increasingly aware of silver linings. On the first day in the Falkland Islands, high winds and big waves prevented the tenders from shuttling the newly-arrived passengers onto the Kapitan Klebnikov, the icebreaker that would serve as our home for the next 31 days. […]
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White, Out
03. Dec, 2010 
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From December 4, 2010 to January 3, 2011 we are going way off the grid: a semi-circumnavigation of Antarctica, starting off the coast of South America and ending 31 days later in the other hemisphere; in Hobart, Tasmania. We will be unable to update the site, check emails or really much of anything electronic. This […]
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Penguins in Antarctica
14. Dec, 2009 1 Comment
We will be traveling from the Falkland Islands for 30 days aboard the Finnish icebreaker, Kapitan Klebnikov, literally sailing underneath the planet past the Ross Ice Shelf, McMurdo Station to Hobart, Tasmania. Here we will study Ernest Shackleton’s famed voyage aboard “Endurance” and that of “Aurora”, sent from New Zealand as a supply ship to […]
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