27 Feb 2020
Buckle Island, Chinstrap Penguins and The Monolith
We are now passing the Balleny Islands with sheer cliffs of volcanic rock and ice and big dormant volcanoes. Yesterday, at noon, we arrived at Buckle Island and later had wonderful viewing of two pair of Humpback whales - each pair consisting of a female and her calf.
At 2100 hours we reached the south end of Buckle Island and its famous The Monolith, a 110-metre pillar of volcanic rock and Sabrina Island, a protected area with Chinstrap Penguins.
Various flying birds have been seen including numerous Snow Petrels. The coastline is a forbidding one, located below ice caps on each island and where the ocean rapidly descends from the shore to depths of nearly 2,000-metres.
Image from file © A.Breniere, Heritage Expeditions
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