Patelnia, rondel (means frying pan in polish) – what is this place? This is not a translation mistake or a linguistic error, but the official names of individual points on the map surrounding the station. Because you can go there not only for tourism but also research, when you need to perform monitoring of birds and pinnipeds every 10 days.
Month: January 2016
The grave of Wlodzimierz Puchalski
January 19th was a special date – we celebrated the 37th anniversary of the death of Wlodzimierz Puchalski, a well-known Polish photographer and author of nature films, whose tomb is located on one of the hills above the Station.
“Polonus” on water!
The day before yesterday was a memorable event – by the courtesy of the Chilean Navy ship crew ATF Lautaro -yacht “Polonus”, which was mentioned in one of the entries before found itself in the waters of the Admiralty Bay.
The satellite connection
The people often wonder why our internet is so slow, and a video talk on Skype is a huge success. The more that the fiber-optic lines with a capacity of hundreds of Mbps are on the doorstep and it’s for little money. Well yes but on the continent. Here we are at the mercy of satellite communications, and I will try to bring it closer as what’s like in reality.
New Year’s Eve and New Year
After Christmas laziness, there came time for New Year’s laziness. There were a few variants of spending New Year’s Eve but they were depending on weather conditions.