December 24, 2016 -- We progressed further south in an attempt to reach Devil Island, part of the larger James Ross Island cluster off the western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. However, we soon got stuck (literally) in the ice and couldn’t continue. We stopped at this point awhile to look around. Almost completely silent, the sense of isolation here was remarkable. The ice seemed to continue endlessly in all directions; the few small clusters of penguins stood out like tiny specks of black dust against this backdrop.

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