Questions about weather on Stewart Island are a little bit different to most places. It’s not so much […]
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“We will be starting with Zodiac groups 3,4 and 5. When they get back, it will be groups 6,7 and 8, then 9, 1 and 2. I cannot guarantee that we will be able to get you all to shore safely, and if conditions change, we will have to stop the zodiacs” said Shane, rather prophetically as it turned out. This time luck was with me - I was in Zodiac group 5, the last Zodiac of the first group of 5, heading out to Peter 1 Oy (or island), a very remote peri-Antarctic island, some 450km from the mainland on the rarely visited est coast of Antarctica.
Setting foot on Peter 1 Øy – ...

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Quitor Fortress, Aldea de Tulor, San Pedro ...

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Hotel Altiplanico and Valley de la Luna ...

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