Rob Larter on Nostr: 40 years ago today on my first #Antarctic and Southern Ocean research cruise I ...

40 years ago today on my first #Antarctic and Southern Ocean research cruise I arrived at South Georgia for the first time. RRS Discovery III tied up at the jetty at King Edward Point, a short distance from the abandoned Grytviken whaling station. I had previously visited the Alps and spent summers working as a field assistant in Iceland and Alaska, but the mountain scenery of South Georgia was the most impressive I had seen - ice-capped mountains of alpine scale rising directly from the sea.