{"id":186,"date":"2015-04-18T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ztron.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-04-18T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T21:59:29","slug":"2015-03-19-petermann-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"2015-03-19: Petermann Island & Lemaire Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next on the agenda was Petermann Island.\u00a0 We were dropped next to a research station that had already closed down for the winter. It was nice and sunny.<\/p>\n

Hedging season for the gentoo penguins was long over, so there remained\u00a0 relatively few of them on the island (still many). They enjoyed chasing each other over the island.<\/p>\n

We saw a Wedell seal (big bag of blubber) and South Polar Skuas fighting over the meat of a dead penguins.<\/p>\n

Petermann Island was the most southern landing. The MS Ortelius then headed back north via the Lemaire channel. Worth mentioning are 2 mountain peaks that were referred to as Una’s tits. The name made it into the maps and was only renamed into Una Peaks recently. Una was a Falklands office secretary who was\u00a0 the<\/span> last women the\u00a0British Antarctic\u00a0 <\/span>staff\u00a0 heading south would see for a long time…<\/p>\n

\"Landing<\/a>
Landing on Petermann Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Petermann<\/a>
Petermann Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Bay<\/a>
Bay with Melting Icebergs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Lena<\/a>
Lena Getting in Touch with Penguins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Fur<\/a>
Fur Seal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Rocks<\/a>
Rocks & Icebergs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"South<\/a>
South Polar Skua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"South<\/a>
South Polar Skua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Wedell<\/a>
Wedell Seal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"GPS<\/a>
GPS Tracks on Petermann Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Entrance to Lemaire Channel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"MS<\/a>
MS Ushuaia Whizing by<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Una's<\/a>
Una’s Tits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Next on the agenda was Petermann Island.\u00a0 We were dropped next to a research station that had already closed down for the winter. It was nice and sunny. Hedging season for the gentoo penguins was long over, so there remained\u00a0 relatively few of them on the island (still many). They enjoyed chasing each other over … Continue reading 2015-03-19: Petermann Island & Lemaire Channel<\/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\/186"}],"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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}