I must admit I had a burst of nerves as we sat in our parkas on the short ride between the ship and the island. The shoreline was dotted with penguins and then further up the coastline were the various buildings that made up Russia’s Bellinghausen scientific base. We were going to be running a…

When my last post ended we were just about to end our time in Buenos Aires and head down to Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world, also the location of the port where we’d board our ship, The Ocean Victory, which would take us to Antarctica.