February 06 2010
Antarctica 10 Man 1/x I will post some images of human settlements in the antarctic region. I am mixed about the so called historic settlements being preserved as the antarctic is a wild place mostly free of settlements and except for the very very historic sites I think the remnants should just be removed. However this settlement seems genuinely historic enough to be worth preserving. This church was brought from from Norway to (unsuccessfully) improve the whalers. Ok not Sweden, but I think of it as early IKEA. The church is on the South Georgia settlement of Grytviken and is the church where Sir Earnest Shackleton’s body lay following his heart attack in 1922. He is buried nearby in the whalers cemetery. A replica of his tiny boat is also in the fine museum. The original James Caird carried Shackleton and five companions, 1300 km in the 23 ft boat before landing on the other side of the island followed then by a gruelling journey across the Island to another whaling station, Stromness, in 1916. He went on to successfully rescue all his expedition crew It is snowing.

Antarctica 10 Man 1/x I will post some images of human settlements in the antarctic region. I am mixed about the so called historic settlements being preserved as the antarctic is a wild place mostly free of settlements and except for the very very historic sites I think the remnants should just be removed. However this settlement seems genuinely historic enough to be worth preserving. This church was brought from from Norway to (unsuccessfully) improve the whalers. Ok not Sweden, but I think of it as early IKEA.

The church is on the South Georgia settlement of Grytviken and is the church where Sir Earnest Shackleton’s body lay following his heart attack in 1922. He is buried nearby in the whalers cemetery. A replica of his tiny boat is also in the fine museum. The original James Caird carried Shackleton and five companions, 1300 km in the 23 ft boat before landing on the other side of the island followed then by a gruelling journey across the Island to another whaling station, Stromness, in 1916. He went on to successfully rescue all his expedition crew

It is snowing.



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