Our last day of landings in Antarctica before heading back to Ushuaia, Argentina, across the notorious Drake Passage! It's a beautiful day, and we pay a visit to Port Lockroy, used by the whaling industry from 1911 to 1931, as a British naval base during WWII, and then as a British research station until 1962. Now it is preserved and maintained by the British Antarctic Heritage Trust and has a fine museum showing how researchers lived and worked. It also has an equally fine gift shop and museum! I got a mug from Port Lockroy, Antarctica!!!
Since it was the site of a whaling station, there are multitudes of whale bones around, including this nearly complete skeleton. Note the massive skull and jawbones at the back.
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