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Sailing the Southern Ocean – where penguins, ice and volcanoes reign supremeMarch 25, 2020Sailing the Southern Ocean – where penguins, ice and volcanoes reign supremeAccepting a science-based charter to the South Sandwich Islands was always a huge gamble. It’s doesn’t happen that often, but sometimes when sticking your neck out in the Southern Ocean, you just get plain lucky. The semi-active volcanic arc of the South Sandwich Islands consists of seven main islands and their outliers. It begins in the north with the impressive volcanic cone of Zavodovski, 300 miles southeast from the southern tip of South Georgia. The chain lies right in the teeth of depressions that form in the Drake Passage below the toe of South America and is notorious for gale-force...March 25, 2020Read More >>