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Peter I Island, Antarctica -- No Man’s Land

Antarctica Wanderings —No Man’s Land -- Peter I Island It was sunrise as our ship the National Geographic Endurance approached Peter I Island the forbidding volcanic island abruptly rising out of a remote part of the Bellingshausen Sea 280 miles west of the Antarctic Continent. Peter I Island is considered by some as one of the most remote islands on the planet. The island is 95% covered by a glaciers and ice with a coastline of tall vertical rocky cliffs and mostly surrounded by raging storms and seas choked with icebergs and pack ice making it inaccessible most of the time. It’s location and surrounding seas are so forbidding that it was first discovered by whalers 1821 and the first person to ever land there was in 1929 claiming it for Norway. As of 2005 less than 600 people have ever set foot on Peter I Island but in early January the conditions were ideal as we approached the island on the National Geographic Endurance. Surrounding the island we encountered massive icebergs and lots of broken sea ice but to our surprise we were met with a windless morning, dead flat calm seas, sunny skies and temps in the low 30s making it relatively easy for our ship to get up close to the island. With virtually no real landing spots we set out in zodiacs exploring the ice fields seeking a spot on the steep rocky coastline to attempt a landing and to our surprise we can now call ourselves one of the few humans to have ever made landfall here. Given the unusually calm and stable conditions we were even able to launch some inflatable sea kayaks for a paddle thru the surrounding ice fields making us the first people to have ever kayaked here. We did however get trapped in the constantly moving sea ice requiring the help of two Zodiacs to clear a passageway back to the ship. We ended the day with a polar plunge into the 32’F waters making it another first as our group were the only people to have ever done that in this normally very hostile environment. Wow what an experience! January 2022 Join our Facebook Group " @Photographic Wanderings " for more of our wildlife and travel photography . . . Video by: Bill & Linda Klipp and Eric Wehrmeister (Nat Geo Endurance Video Chronicler) Check out our online Photo Website at: http://www.WildlifePhotos.me ©All Contents All Rights Reserved Bill Klipp