National Geographic: Antarctic Wildlife Adventure Page #3
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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.
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,
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
among the first human endeavors
to mark the Antarctic.
Near Palmer Station
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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