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Day 38, Monday, March 3 2025 - Antarctic Peninsula Expedition Cruising (Day 2 in Antarctica) - Jack
Captain Rens van Eerten taking us into the Lemaire Channel before we had to turn around due to too many ice bergs in the channel.
Lemaire Channel is a strait off Antarctica, between Kyiv Peninsula in the mainland's Graham Land and Booth Island.
Nicknamed "Kodak Gap" by some, it is one of the top tourist destinations in Antarctica; steep cliffs hem in the iceberg-filled passage,
which is 11 km (6.8 mi) long and just 600 metres (2,000 ft) wide at its narrowest point.
The channel has since become a standard part of the itinerary for cruising in Antarctica; not only is it scenic, but the protected waters are usually as still as a lake,
a rare occurrence in the storm-wracked southern seas, and the north-south traverse delivers vessels close to Petermann Island for landings.
The principal difficulty is that icebergs may fill the channel, especially in early season, obliging a ship to backtrack and go around the outside of Booth Island to reach Petermann.
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