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© ©Copyright P. Ward - picture taken 1985 / 86
Designed to send anyone who works in H&S into a state of apoplexy (bit dangerous that - best look the opposite way), probably quite rightly too in this case. I can't remember what these people were doing in this boat in the fairly close pack but it made for nice photographs from where I was on shore up a small hill.
Had even quite a light wind got up (and Signy doesn't really do even "light wind" very often, it is usually more than that) in the wrong direction, the boat and crew could have found themselves trapped in the middle of many thousands of tons of ice slowly floating off in the opposite direction with no way of making progress through it. Don't try this at home.
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| This picture is one of a collection assembled in
2007 on
the 60th anniversary of Signy Island
Base: 60°43'S 045°36'W. Thank you to those who sent their treasured memories of their time in
Antarctica and allowed them to be made into a commemorative cd
and then placed here on the web. My commentary is taken from notes I was sent with the pictures if any. Corrections or additions, please The reunion weekend was 14-16 September 2007. |
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