Into Antarctica | The Arbuturian
The southern ocean is notorious. You expect mountainous seas and vertiginous swells, heavy cloud and painfully freezing conditions – maximum 0°C even in midsummer. It was somewhat surprising then to be there in late summer (mid-February) on a calm, almost flat sea. There was admittedly quite a bit of weather. In the course of just one morning there was snow, hail and bright sunshine. And this was before we'd even embarked on the ocean proper and were still in the bay of Ushuaia, Argentina's southernmost city. We had just rounded Cape Horn (named after the city of Hoorn in northern...
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