Antarctica

Banco Burdwood, South Atlantic Ocean Lat 54 ° 26.41'S; Long 057 ° 42.21'W I perceive it, the Drake is behind us, we are back in the Atlantic after 15 months and 10.269 miles spent circumnavigating South America, pushing us down to the Antarctic Polar...

Lat 62 ° 14.15; Long 058 ° 40.50'W Yesterday, as expected, we set sail at 04:30h am and by 5:30 am we were out of Deception. Outside 15 knots of wind were waiting for us and with full sail ashore wewere sailing at steady 10 knots of speed. In a...

Lat 62 ° 58,45'S; Long 060 ° 40.60'W It is 2300h and as I write this note, Valentina and Matteo are arranging about fifty kilos of freshly shipped food. A pack of 6x1.5-liter bottles of orange juice A pack of 6x1.5 liter bottles of Coca Cola 6x4...

Lat 64 ° 32.40'S; Long 061 ° 59.89'W Another unforgettable day. The sun has accompanied us for the whole day making the 8 hours I spent at the helm extremely pleasant. Our destination today was Enterprise Island, halfway up the Strait of Gerlache...

Vernadsky Research Station, Galindez Island This morning I woke up with the question of what to do with the beam in the port side hull. It is only one plank out of the 20 sitting in each hull and with these temperatures and humidity, working with...

Vernadsky Research Station, Galindez Island Another long day, but marked by a good mood: Angelique II has no problem in going back to warm latitudes counting only on herself. Despite the 23 hours of pure adrenaline experienced yesterday, this morning...

Vernadsky Research Station, Galindez Island I'm laying in the saloon, I decid to spend the night here, to check our anchor. I activated both radar and anchor alarm to rest a little, but I can not. The adrenaline that still flows in my body does not...

Vernadsky Research Station, Galindez Island Vernadsky is an "all year round station", meaning a research station running 12 months a year and not just the summer months like most of the stations here in Antarctica. Until 1998 the base was called...

Vernadsky Research Station, Galindez Island After the yesterday long night, we decided to set sail a bit later on in the day to allow few hours more of rest. By 12:00h the anchor was up and we headed towards one of the most spectacular stretches of...

Port Lockeroy, Wincke Island It is three o'clock in the morning and finally the roar of the wind has stopped and with it the fear of losing the anchor and "go to rocks". Now only the ice alarm remains! Port Lockroy is a bay on the south west coast of...