In November I embarked on the Oscar Viel, a 295 foot Chilean Navy icebreaker on a supply mission to the Antarctic Circle. Together with a group of scientists, geographers, and almost 90 souls of the ship’s crew, we set sail south from the city of Punta Arenas, Chile on the Strait of Magellanes towards the Chilean Antarctic Peninsula.
At the beginning we made our way through the canals of Patagonia and then past Cape Horn to cross the Drake Passage, and after four days of turbulent navigation I saw for the first time in my life King George Island.