Subantarctic Islands Geology
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Gold Harbour is a beautiful sight even without the help of this well-placed rainbow. The name probably came from the iron pyrite, also known as fools' gold, that is found in the rocks here.This is a place of considerable geologic upheaval where the Cumberland Bay Formation rocks meet the Sandebugten Formation rocks. As...
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The largest King Penguin rookery in the world is in St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia. The penguins have a complicated reproductive cycle, and this rookery is occupied by penguins year-round. They are a noisy group, but they are not as smelly as the Adelie, Gentoo or Chinsatrap Penguins that we met on this voyage. The ...
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Grytviken means "pot cove" in Norwegian, and this whaling station was named for the sealers' trypots that were found there. The whaling station was established by C. A. Larsen in 1904, and it closed in December of 1962 after the large-scale whaling activity depleted the whale population The remains of the station, the ...
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We tend think of penguins as rather large, feathered animals that live on icebergs and star in feature-length movies and cartoons. I was surprised to discover that penguins can also be found in holes in the loose pebbly soil of New Island in the Falkland Islands. The burrows were high up the hill, way above the sea, an...
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