{"id":162,"date":"2015-04-18T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T05:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ztron.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=162"},"modified":"2015-04-18T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T05:06:36","slug":"2015-04-19-charcot-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"2015-04-19: Charcot Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charcot Island was discovered by an expedition led and funded by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a french doctor and an passionate Antarctic explorer. He and his crew overwintered here\u00a0 9 long months in their ship, the Pourquoi-Pas. All crew survived except for the pet-pig. It is somewhere buried on the island — maybe in many years from now some scientists dig out its bones, and conclude that the Antarctic was once warm enough for pigs to live there\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

After set ashore, we hiked up to the highest point of the island. We then went to the bay where the Pourquoi-Pas overwintered. All that is left is a ruin of a stone hut that was used to measure the earth’s magnetic field.\u00a0 In addition, there supposedly is a “F” for France carved in a stone. We did not find it however.<\/p>\n

On the way back to the MS Ortelius, the weather had cleared up, and Dimitri took us on a scenic zodiac ride. We went close to some icebergs, and\u00a0 actually landed on one of them. It was inhabited by a leopard seal that did not mind sharing it with us however.<\/p>\n

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The Beach of Charcot Island (and some Fascinatingly Formed icebergs in the Background)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Up<\/a>
A Hill with a Summit Cross on\u00a0 Charcot Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Kewan<\/a>
My Roommate Kewan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Bay in that Charcot Overwintered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Funasshi<\/a>
Funasshi Super Hero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Magnetic<\/a>
Ruin of Magnetic Hut: Charcot’s Scientists took Measurements of the Earth’s Magnetic Field in here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Moss:<\/a>
Moss: The Result of around 100 Years of Growth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Iceberg<\/a>
Iceberg Sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Iceberg<\/a>
Iceberg Sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Iceberg<\/a>
Iceberg Sculpture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Leopard<\/a>
Leopard Seal on an Iceberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"On<\/a>
On top of an Iceberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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GPS Tracks on Charcot Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charcot Island was discovered by an expedition led and funded by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a french doctor and an passionate Antarctic explorer. He and his crew overwintered here\u00a0 9 long months in their ship, the Pourquoi-Pas. All crew survived except for the pet-pig. It is somewhere buried on the island — maybe in many years from … Continue reading 2015-04-19: Charcot Island<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}