Saturday, January 18, 2011
That morning we went ashore to Port Lockroy, a little bit of UK in Antarctica. In 1944 the British established ‘Base A’, first as a military base,; after WWII it was continued in a civilian capacity till 1964. It was rescently restored and is open in summer to visitors as a museum. Also did some souvenir shopping and had all our passports stamped 🙂
United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust
Later we cruised towards Paradise Bay where the Captain gave a good show: he nicely pirouetted the ship around and then sounded the horn 3 times which gave an amazing echo, specially from Deck 7.
This was also our last day in Antarctica.
The next 2 days were sea days and not half as bad as the previous sea days.
Caroline.
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