Intro After our adventures at Devil Island and Brown Bluff, we went for a long boat ride up and around the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula towards Mikkelsen Harbor which is on the south side of Trinity Island on the northwest side of the peninsula. The originl of the name Mikkelsen Harbor comes from Peder [...]
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Brown Bluff, Antarctica
Background The next stop on our Antarctica trip was slated to be the only stop on the mainland of the 7th continent. All other other stops were islands around the mainland. Usually, after a dive, the divers would join the land team but sometimes that doesn't happen for various reasons. Therefore, I wanted to be [...]
Elephant Island, Antarctica
Background Our first stop on the epic trip to Antarctica was Elephant Island. Our path to Point Wild (Photo: Becky Kagan Schott) When I asked the expedition team "why is it named Elephant Island," I got a funny look and then they said that is is likely either (1) because Elephant Seals used to live [...]