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Subject: [Leica] Fortuna Bay and grytviken
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:11:10 -0600
References: <CAH1UNJ1UBp4MEF8McCLoi_r_=+GfcU+qQZFJpiF4kxhcXaEoJQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Feb 4, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> Still on South Georgia, two locations with a strong flavour of
> Shackleton. Fortuna Bay is adjacent to Stromness, and at the very end
> of his heroic journey, he traversed the bay, climbed a hill and
> descended to Stromness and civilization. Just a few photographs from
> there:
> 
> Fur Seals: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140111_3039.jpg.html
> 
> Moulting King Penguins:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140111_3099.jpg.html
> 
> South Georgia Pintail:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140112_3286.jpg.html
> 
> Grytviken was the premier whaling station on South Georgia throughout
> the whaling years, set up by a Norwegian, Carl Anton Larsen in 1904.
> During this period, 1904 to 1965, no less than 175.250 whales had been
> processed through all the whaling stations on South Georgia, in
> addition to millions of seals (both fur and elephant seals), leading
> to the virtual decimation of all these populations around South
> Georgia. In addition, the human presence introduced the brown rat,
> which in turn decimated all the ground breeding birds in the pockets
> where it is present. Luckily, it cannot spread throughout the island,
> as it is blocked by glaciers. There is an effort going on at present
> to systematically exterminate it wherever it is established.
> Shackleton died here on his Fourth Polar Expedition, and at his wife's
> request, was buried at the graveyard at Grytviken:
> 
> Approaching Grytviken:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140112_3333.jpg.html
> 
> Grytviken: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140112_3354.jpg.html
> 
> The Whaler's Church:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140112_3426.jpg.html
> 
> Shackleton's Grave:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140112_3367.jpg.html
> 
> A Toast: 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/antarctica/Antarctica_20140112_3371.jpg.html

fascinating
thank you

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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