The Antarctic Sound is a passageway between the end of the Antarctic Peninsula and Joinville Island. We were going from the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula to the east side of it. The Antarctic Sound is 30 miles long. Our ship’s crew said it was doubtful that we would be able to get all the way through it, due to all the icebergs, but that they were going to make the attempt.

For my part, I was really hoping to make it all the way through the Sound. The Weddell Sea was on the other side of the Sound and I really wanted to make it to the Weddell Sea. The Weddell Sea is where Ernest Shackleton on his exploratory journey aboard the ship Endurance spent some two years. The got stuck in the ice in the Weddell Sea and the ice crushed their ship. It took them two years to get back to civilization. Shackleton wrote about his journey in the book “South”. The book was a hard read but well worth it to learn about the Antarctic. My daughter, Cory, gave me the book for Christmas and Vicky and I read it right before our trip down here. I highly recommend the book if anyone is interested. There are also other books about the Endurance expedition in 1914.

These photos are as we were first getting into the Antarctic Sound. These are glacial icebergs. Notice around and behind the main icebergs in the photos and you will see that the whole Sound was littered with icebergs.