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Chipotle42 OP t1_j3c8710 wrote

More specifically, midnight-ish sun on False Cape Renard (the "true" cape is just to the left of this scene).

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weaselmaster t1_j3e2k67 wrote

I was gonna say - this time of year, the sun just gets closer to the horizon and then goes back up!

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Chipotle42 OP t1_j3e3ed4 wrote

It made the trip both more wonderful and more exhausting - there was always something to see, almost 24 hours a day.

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StuckInLazlosBasemen t1_j3eiq3b wrote

What was it like?? Tell me anything, I’m obsessed with polar travel

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Chipotle42 OP t1_j3em2bq wrote

We were on a small ship, so I spent a lot of time outside taking photos as things went by. There were a fair number of other ships, and there was a well-enforced limit on how many people could be on land at a time, so there was a fair amount of waiting for our turn. I spent some of that waiting time talking to the people who had been there before or who had other special knowledge (there was a penguin specialist, an astrophysicist, an geologist, a record holding kayaker, etc., not to mention some impressive photographers). Sometimes we didn't land at all, but toured the shoreline (or icebergs) in a zodiac. I really enjoyed that the wildlife was unafraid, so while we didn't walk right up to them (as we had been instructed about), they sometimes came right up to us.

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Eaders t1_j3fiu7y wrote

Do you know if anyone has ever summited those peaks?

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Chipotle42 OP t1_j3fj13u wrote

Not that I am aware of. Wiki claims Germans climbed the taller of Una Peaks, pretty similar...

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