Day 13, Feb 2, D’Urville Is Elephant Is
Is that the wailing wall?
Friday, a pretty nasty day: 8am we get to Brown Bluff, pm to d’Urville Monument.
Brown Bluff
is a ‘tuya’ which means flat-topped, steep-sided volcano formed in the last 1 million years when lava erupted through an englacial lake. Tuya is rare worldwide, being confirmed to regions which were covered by glaciers and had active volcanism during the same period. The volcano gets its name from its steep slopes and brown to black colored rocks.
It’s a cloudy day. After we landed, snow begins to fall. Many have hiked to the top.
The long march; longer version; more pix n videos on Google Maps.
PM, zodiac only, that takes us to d’Urville Monument. It’s still nasty, part of me wishing to return to the ship asap -:)
D’Urville Monument is a conspicuous conical summit, 1886′ (575m) high, at the south-west end of Joinville Island, off the north-east end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a British expedition under James Clark Ross between 1839 and 1843. It was named by him for Captain Jules Dumont d’Urvlle.
The photo at the end of the video ↓ (zodiac by the pengiusn) is taken by the ship’s photographer.
