1. Antarctic Cruise M.V Polar Star January 2011

3. Sunday 16th JanuaryLocation: Ushuaia pier and Beagle ChannelPosition: 540 48.5’ South 0660 17.9’ WestAir temperature: 110CSea state: Calm

5. The Polar Star

6. The ‘Experts’

7. The ‘Crew’

8. The most important man on the boat – the doctor

9. The observation lounge The cabin The Bridge Inside the boat

11. Leaving the port of Ushuaia, Argentina

13. Beagle Channel – Gateway to Antarctica

16. Monday 17th JanuaryLocation: Drake PassagePosition: 570 08.0’ South 0640 38.9’ WestAir temperature: 40CSea state: SlightWind : 4 knots SSE

17. Pintados

18. Wandering Albatross

19. Southern Giant Petrel

20. Southern Giant Petrel

21. Antarctic Prion

22. Black-browed Albatross

23. Tuesday 18th JanuaryLocation: Drake PassagePosition: 600 38.8’ South 0600 54.0’ WestAir temperature: 20CSea state: RoughWind : 6 knots SE

25. 1st iceberg

27. 1st penguins

29. Wednesday 19th JanuaryLocation: Half Moon, Hannah Point & Deception Islands, South ShetlandsPosition: 620 38.9’ South 0600 37.6’ WestAir temperature: 40CSea state: CalmWind : 2 knots NW

30. Half Moon Bay

31. Half Moon Island – 1st zodiac ride

32. Chinstrap Penguin colony

38. Where did everyone go ?

40. Fur Seal

43. Humpback Whales

47. Elephant Seals

49. Gentoo Penguin colony

53. Macaroni Penguin

54. Ice ‘carving’ away from glacier

55. Narrow entrance to caldera – Deception Island

57. Thursday 20th JanuaryLocation: Cuverville Island & Paradise BayPosition: 640 46.9’ South 0620 47.2’ WestAir temperature: 40CSea state: CalmWind : 1 knot NW

61. Gentoo penguin colony – Cuverville Island

65. Errera Channel

69. Iceberg erosion from when iceberg was originally other way up

70. Paradise Bay

71. Lemaire Channel

79. Friday 21st JanuaryLocation: Vernadsky Station, Yalour Islands, Petermann Island, Antarctic PeninsulaPosition: 680 14.4’ South 0640 17.2’ WestAir temperature: 60CSea state: CalmWind : 2 knots E

80. Vernadsky Ukrainian Research Base

81. Not much research going on!

82. Wordie House – former British Station last used in the 1950s

84. Crabeater Seal

85. Weddell Seal

86. Adelie Penguins – Yalour Islands

88. ‘Pretty maids all in a row’

91. Leopard Seal

93. Crabeater Seal

102. No, you go first !

103. Saturday 22nd JanuaryLocation: Goudier Island, Jougla Point, Neko HarbourPosition: 640 48.6’ South 0630 31.6’ WestAir temperature: 30CSea state: SlightWind : 8 knots ENE

104. Goudier Island

105. Port Lockroy – First British base in Antarctica and Britain’s most southerly post office

108. 4 ladies (middle) who run the post office

109. Minke Whale

110. Neko Harbour

111. Penguins ‘porpoising’

112. Sunday 23rd, Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th JanuaryLocation: Smith Island & Southern Drake PassagePosition: 620 32.1’ South 0630 01.3’ WestAir temperature: 20CSea state: HighWind : 8 knots WNW

113. Storm in the Drake Passage

116. Must keep birding !

117. Wednesday 26th JanuaryLocation: UshuaiaWeather: SunnyTemperature: Max 160

119. Bill Gates yacht comes to meet us!

121. View from hotel room across Beagle Channel

123. Argentinian Dragonfly

124. Dolphin Gull

125. White-rumped Sandpiper

126. White-crowned Eleana

127. Tufted Tit-Tyrant

129. Thursday 27th JanuaryLocation: Ushuaia – Tierra Del Fuego National ParkWeather: Broken Cloud and light rainTemperature: Max 90

134. Magellanic Woodpeckers

135. Patagonian Sierra-finch Southern Caracara

136. Patagonian Sierra-finch

137. Patagonian Grey Fox

138. Friday 28th JanuaryLocation: Ushuaia – Tierra Del Fuego National ParkWeather: SunnyTemperature: Max 140

143. Rufous-necked Sparrow Chimango Caracara

144. Upland Goose

145. White-Throated Treerunner

146. Spectacled Ducks

147. Saturday 29th JanuaryLocation: Ushuaia – Marcial GlacierWeather: Scattered CloudsTemperature: Max 140

155. Austral House Wren

156. Long-tailed Meadowlark Ochre-naped Ground-tyrant

157. Night Heron

160. Sunday 30th JanuaryLocation: Ushuaia – Andes and Beagle ChannelWeather: Broken Cloud Temperature: Max 160

164. Paso Garibaldi

168. Ushuaia housing stock