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We Sailed Into an Active Volcano…in Antarctica!
26 de abril de 2026 · 25 min · 187K vistas · Deception Island
Rusted tanks and derelict buildings on Antarctic shore
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Nikki and Jason Wynn sail into Deception Island's active volcanic caldera in Antarctica aboard Icebird, a 60-foot expedition sailboat, with ten people total including Curiosity crew members.▶ 0:07 The island's single entrance, Neptune's Bellows, is a narrow gap so easily missed that sailors historically failed to recognize the island as a caldera — the origin of its name.▶ 4:14 Ashore, the ground vents enough geothermal heat to warm tidal pools to near-boiling; the volcano last erupted in 1970 but is classified as a restless caldera with significant volcanic risk.▶ 6:56 The island holds the world's largest chinstrap penguin colony, estimated at over 200,000 birds; a 30-minute avian flu observation protocol is required before approaching any colony.▶ 1:32 The group also explores the remains of Antarctica's only land-based whaling station, where 150 men once processed whale oil and nearly 2 million whales were killed across the Southern Hemisphere during the 20th century.▶ 15:34 Icebird's aero rig — a rotating mast-and-boom unit with no stays or standing rigging, designed by the engineers behind the Dynarigs on the Black Pearl — gets its first use on passage.▶ 17:32 Navigating among icebergs demands constant vigilance; the crew moors overnight to a 1915 Norwegian whaling wreck alongside a 157-foot Dutch vessel, the Amazone, whose Russian crew hosts an impromptu onboard party.▶ 18:10
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