About Wilfried Geens
A selection of photographs gathered during my time as political science instructor in Switzerland (1966-74), several foreign service postings (1975-2005) and various personal travels.
The photo in the header was taken in the Drake Passage, sailing away from Antarctica and looking back at a sunset over the South Shetland Islands.
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Category Archives: Antarctica
Falklands: Port Stanley, the world’s smallest capital
Copyright: wgeens@gmail.com The jetty with typical Victorian terrace houses in the background View of the centre of Port Stanley Margaret Thatcher is hailed here as the great liberator; Falklands War Memorial Governor’s mansion Summer flowers in the Governor’s garden In … Continue reading
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South Georgia: Shackleton’s Burial Place / Wildlife Paradise
South Georgia , South Atlantic, a very remote British sub-Antarctic island, 170km long and 40km wide. Discovered in 1675 by London-born merchant Antoine de la Roche while sailing from Lima to England. Captain James Cook made the first landing on January 17, 1775. … Continue reading
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Falklands: Carcass Island
Copyright: wgeens@gmail.com Carcass Island landscape
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Antarctic peninsula
These are photos taken while sailing through the Gerlache Strait and the Lemaire Canal, after exploring several islands in the Falklands archipelago, South Georgia and Elephant Island – a journey in hommage to my hero Sir Ernest Shackleton. On the return voyage … Continue reading
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Falklands: New Island
Typical landscape and vegetation of Falkland islands Rockhopper penguin Rockhopper chicks in a “kindergarten” for improved security against skua predator birds Albatross with chick on tower shaped nest Magelanic geese amid tussock grass Blue-eyed Cormorant or Antarctic Cormorant (Phalocrocorax atriceps).
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