Antarctic Sound separates the continent from the island of Joinville. The sound is 56 km long and 13 – 22 km wide and has been nicknamed ’Iceberg Alley’ as numerous icebergs drift northwards through it.
The rapidly changing weather conditions and the drifting icebergs create a dance of blues and whites that is strangely fascinating.
Some of the floating ice sheets have passengers on them.
Hope Bay is a small sheltered inlet in the northern part of the bay, with a penguin colony and several glaciers. In 1952 it was the scene of the only armed incident on Antarctica, when Argentinian troops shot at members of the British Antarctica Survey. Nobody was hurt and the blame was put on a trigger-happy commander.
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