National Geographic: Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Page #3

Year:
1991
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especially the leopard seal.

Diti is the youngest of the boys.

Live, the middle boy, finds that

this summer,

geology has captured his attention.

Dion is the oldest

a budding artist

with an interest

in mechanical things also.

Some of this Antarctic exploration

that the boys share

can look dangerous to an outsider.

But plainly, Sally and Jerome see

great benefits in bringing

the children with them.

At home in the Falklands

a traveling schoolmaster

visits for a couple of weeks every

other month or so

with lessons from Sally in between.

On board the Damien II,

the boys learn about earth science

by splashing where boiling volcanic

waters mix with the near frozen sea.

The boys bang away at rock

looking for gold

or fools gold even

and making plans to get rich and buy

firecrackers back at home.

You can just see the difference

that it's made to them.

And coming down here for three months

you can see how many people that

meet and what they're introduced

to and what they're capable

of learning

there are other ways of getting the

same education or the same facts

but this is a very good way of

getting it, you see.

At Foyn Harbor on the peninsula

the boys explore a site leftover

from one of the first significant

human impacts on the Antarctic.

It's an old whaler's anchorage

where boats once filled casks with

glacier water.

The whalers are long gone

a whaling ship lies abandoned

where it ran aground.

In the hold of the wreck

the boys find dozens of the

cone-shaped tips for harpoons

that once took tens of thousands

of whales in a season

until some species were threatened

with extinction.

At last, international protest put a

stop to commercial whaling,

and there are signs that

the animals may be recovering in

the southern oceans.

Three humpbacks approach the ship.

Their size and curiosity must have

made them easy targets for the whalers

But whale hunting was only

among the first human endeavors

to mark the Antarctic.

Near Palmer Station

an American research site,

Dion joins a party of skin divers

from the base

who are going to see what remains

of one of the biggest environmental

threats the continent has seen.

Actually, we're... the wreck today to

look for oil spills

or oil leaks they've plugged up with

wooden... and splash... last year.

The divers are protected as much as

possible by their dry suits

but the water is frigidly cold:

Early last year, an Argentine supply

ship that doubled as a

tourist boat ran aground.

Passengers used home video cameras

to take these pictures.

Within hours they were rescued

but four days later

the ship had turned on its side.

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