Southern Ocean Motion – by Geoff Long
Well it’s a week since we left Cape Town and the oven baked sides of Table Mountain seem a world away as we plod south at somewhere between 8 and 11 knots, buffeted by strong winds and swells of 5m+. At the current latitude of around 53o South, our target of 70o still seems a very long way off, with the next 17 degrees (approx. 1000 nautical miles) expected to take us another week. In addition,…
First Ice Berg Spotted!
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Sighted this morning at 53deg 19mins S on the Greenwich meridian. Photo by Geoff Long…