Great photo of the Lemaire Channel, Antarctic Peninsula -- posted on Twitter by Laurence Dyke. We went through this channel on the John Biscoe in 1966, in weather rather like this. One of the most spectacular navigable channels in the world of ice -- very heavily glacierized, but with clear water in most summer seasons. This is really a fjord landscape, with old interfluves that have been almost destroyed by intensive ice action over millions of years, leaving these pinnacles as the last remnants of long-gone steep-sided ridges. The waters here are very dangerous, with underwater shallows and grounds in quite unexpected places.
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Just one year later, Brian was teaching us Geography undergraduates Glacial Geomorphology at Durham. Learning from the horse's mouth, for sure.
Indeed I was -- and probably showing you slides of the Lemaire Channel and the South Shetlands, to boot....... I still have the slides, butr many of them are covered with mildew. Digitalisation has taken over everything.......
.......and,, though I didn't go, eseveral of my best fellow - Geography friends accompanied you and your wife and baby son on a field trip to The Faroes, summer 1968.
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