While my season is just starting, get to Hobart from Europe after no less than 25 hours by plane is the impression of having already toured the world. A discreet sign reminds you where you come from, since the town is twinned with Brest ...! Nestled at the foot of Mount Wellington (1271 m) and occupying the entire Bay of Sullivan, the city of Hobart was founded early in the nineteenth century and was the first time a penal colony. Local Aboriginal people were quickly decimated by disease and conflict and gradually ... Read the rest of the article
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One of my worst memories of BAC white, it was a test of philosophy with the question "Can we say forever? ". I had no doubt that there were many things to say about that, but for me I got 4 / 20 ... Even a few years later, I can tell you that I still have not the answer. And you?
On February 10, 2007, I left the Terre Adélie after spending fifteen months on the Dumont d'Urville. Around 16:30, the moorings of the Astrolabe were dropped and gradually, I left behind me the place that was more than a year in "our village". On the deck while the base away, I thought, "speaks to no one, do not get distracted, and enjoy the moment, look away from it all quietly and savor as you do ... Read rest of the article
The results of the photo contest Emotion'Ailes organized under the 2011 Festival Nature Namur fell this weekend. Among 2299 images and 310 participating photographers, the penguins from the colony of Saint Andrews Bay South Georgia, won first prize in the category "graphics".
It is therefore natural that I dedicate this recognition to 400,000 penguins of this beautiful and impressive colony before which the emotion seizes me every year when I go. ... Read the rest of the article
In a previous article , I mentioned the centenary of the conquest of the South Pole by Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his team. The year 2011 also marks the centenary of the Australian Antarctic Expedition Australasian Antarctic Expedition officially called. It was conducted between 1911 and 1914 by Douglas Mawson in the exploration and mapping of virtually unexplored part of the coast of Antarctica located in South Australia.
Douglas Mawson was a geologist, he studied including the territories now known as the Vanuatu and was appointed lecturer at the University of Adelaide in 1905. In November 1907, Ernest Shackleton passage to Australia for his expedition to Antarctica, Mawson agrees to board and teacher Dr. Edgeworth David, who wish to study if there is a link between the geology of Antarctica and that of the Australia. Shackleton quickly notice the qualities of Mawson both physical and scientific, and human and named him head of the expedition ... Read the rest of the article
I'm back after a summer in the Arctic and I must admit, one last trip to the east coast of Greenland, which remains my most grandiose done to date! After departure of Kulusuk, a visit to the community of Ammassalik, so we traveled northwards to the bottom of the fjord of Emperor Franz Joseph ( see on a map ).
Outrageous is the word that came to mind as I traveled this fjord discovered and partially explored by the second German North Polar Expedition ... Read the rest of the article
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pup in the Royal Albatross Campbell Island