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Route: Santiago, Valparaiso, San Antonio, Puerto Montt, Castro, Puerto Chacabuco, Chilean fjords, Punta Arenas, Ushuaia, Puerto Williams, Drake Passage, Antarctica I, Antarctica II, Antarctica III, Antarctica IV, Antarctica V, Drake Passage, Falkland Islands, Argentine Sea (South Atlantic Ocean), Puerto Madryn, Montevideo, Buenos Aires - ship Ms. Zaandam.
Places: Drake Passage, Palmer Archipelago. Dallmann Bay, Anvers Island, Brabant Island, Mount Parry, Melchior Islands (Eta Island, Omega Island, Lambda Island, Delta Island, Alpha Island, Bremen Island, Gand Island), Channel Bremenkanal.
Wildlife & flora: Cape petrel, Humpback whale, Chinstrap penguin.
⏳ Dec 2018
Dallmann Bay
The first scenic cruise in Antartica was in Dallmann Bay lying between Brabant Island and Anvers Island.
Brabant Island is the second-largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is 59 km (37 mi) long north-south, 30 km (19 mi) wide, and rises to 2,520 m (8,268 ft) in Mount Parry. The interior of the island is occupied by two mountain ranges, Solvay Mountains (Cook Summit, 1590 m) in its southern part and Stribog Mountains (summit Mount Parry) in its central and northern parts.
It was named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899) under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it after the Belgian Province of Brabant, in recognition of the support given to the expedition by its citizens.
Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island 61 km (38 miles) long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache after the province of Antwerp in Belgium. It lies south-west of Brabant Island at the south-western end of the group. The south-western coastline of the island forms part of the Southwest Anvers Island and Palmer Basin Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA 7).
In the central part of Dallmann Bay are Melchior Islands (Eta Island, Omega Island, Lambda Island, Delta Island, Alpha Island, Bremen Island, Gand Island)
Omega Island and Bremen Island are separated by channel Bremenkanal.
Cape petrel
Drake Passage
⏳ Dec 2018
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