Location: Punta Arenas, Chile
Two months ago as I was moving my things into my room on the Palmer I remember thinking I was the luckiest person in the world. Today, two months later and my last…
Location: From the Drake Passage into the Strait of Magellan.
Latitude: 53° 33′ S
Longitude: **72° 28′ W
**Air temperature: 4.5 °C (40.1 °F)
Wind chill: -7.7 °C (18.4 °F)
Wind speed: 15 to 20 knots…
Location: From Peter I Island to the Drake Passage.
Latitude: 60° 20′ S
Longitude: 82° 30′ W
Air temperature: 1.7 °C (35.1 °F)
Wind chill: -13.7 °C (7.3 °F)
Wind speed: 25 to 30 knots
Water…
Location: In transit from Ice Station Belgica to Peter I Island.
Latitude: 69° 08′ S
Longitude: **91° 18′ W
**Air temperature: -10.8 °C (12.6 °F)
Wind chill: - 29.7 °C (-21.5 °F)
Wind speed: 18…
Location: Ice Station Belgica
Latitude: **69° 44′ S
**Longitude: 92° 45′ W
Air temperature: -2.2 °C (28 °F)
Wind chill: **-21.4 °C (-6.5 °F)
**Wind speed: 25 to 30 knots
Barometric pressure: 966.3…
Location: Ice Station Belgica
Latitude: 69° 89′ S
Longitude: 93° 10′ W
Antarctic trivia (answer at the end of this journal entry): The Titanic, though billed to be "unsinkable” sank in under three…
Location: Ice Station Belgica
Latitude: 69° 43′ S
Longitude: 92° 00′ W
Air temperature: -12.2 °C (10.4 °F)
Wind speed: 10 to 15 knots
Barometric pressure: 987.0 mBar
Antarctic trivia (answer at the…
