5. CORINTHIAN II
December 22, 2008 – January 1, Drake Passage
2009
Elephant Isl.
Clearence Isl.
King Georges Isl
Racon Isl. Penguin Isl.
Robert Isl.
Greenwich Isl.
Livingston Isl.
Snow Isl.
Walker Bay
Our route across Smith Isl.
the Drake Deception Isl. D'Urville Isl.
Passage and Bransfield Strait Joinville Isl.
Low Isl.
various stops in Dundee Isl.
Antarctica Trinity
Brown Bluff
Isl. Paulet Isl.
Vega Isl.
Brabant Isl. Weddell Sea
James
Neumeyer Channel
Ross Isl. Seymour Isl.
Port Lockroy Anvers Isl.
Dorian Bay
Cuverville Isl. Snow Hill Isl.
Pleneau Isl.
Neko Harbour
Paradise Bay, Larsen Ice Shelf
Almirante Brown
Lemaire Channel
20. To feed, these
penguins have to
make their way to
the sea shore
and then develop
the courage to
swim in these
dangerous
waters filled with
hungry seals
38. It is simply impossible to describe the majesty that
surrounded us in every direction. Everywhere one looks is
magnificence on a scale none of us had ever seen before.
39. We were
simply in awe
and spent
hours sitting in
the middle of
all this
splendor
72. The woman to the right
(with hat), was a wonderful
65 year old guest from
Singapore
73. Tragically, on New Year’s
Day she was found
unconscious in her cabin as
we docked back in Ushuaia.
An ambulance took her to the
hospital in a coma. She died
the following evening.