Preserved Whaling Boats 

Remnants of a past age, these whaling boats are amazingly preserved by the freezing and thawing of snow and ice on the outer islands of the Antarctic Peninsula. Chinstrap penguins noisily run past the 90 year old boats.

 

Half Moon Island is a small, crescent shaped island in the South Shetlands, between Livingston and Greenwich Islands. It is notable for a large and noisy chinstrap penguin rookery.

 

Photo by: Nydia R. Hanna, MV Marco Polo, December 31, 1995