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First Landfall (Aitcho Barrientos Is, South Shetland Islands)

Journal entry for Friday 20th Dec, 2019 (day 10, miles 0)

This afternoon was really quite exciting, our first opportunity to go ashore and start filling our SD Cards with photos of the local wildlife. The location is a place called Aitcho Barrientos, Island which is part of the South Shetland Islands. It seems that the first word in the Islands name started out as an acronym HO, for hyrological observatory.

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