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CAPTAIN Bob MATHEWS, MNI and wife, Judy, MADE A SEMI-CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF

ANTARCTICA IN THE RUSSIAN ICE BREAKER "KAPITAN KHLEBNIKOV" 2004 / 2005.

FIRST LANDFALL IN ANTARCTICA WAS THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS ( 58 degs. West.)

ON THE TIP OF THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA. THE VOYAGE PROCEEDED ALONG THE

COASTS OF THE BELLINGSHAUSEN and AMUNDSEN SEAS TO THE ROSS ICE SHELF and

McMURDO SOUND. FINALLY LEAVING ANTARCTICA AT CAPE ADARE (169 degs. East ).

AN ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE WAS GIVEN BY CAPT. MATHEWS AT THE ROYAL

HONG KONG YACHT CLUB ON 23rd. February 2005

THE HANDOUTS DISTRIBUTED AT THE TALK AND DISPLAYED ON THIS SITE, WERE ALL

PREPARED BY CAPT. MATHEWS, INCLUDING ALL THE HISTORICAL DATA.

ALL PHOTOS OF ANTARCTICA ARE BY JUDY MATHEWS.

Handouts and Photos are Copyright of Bob and Judy Mathews

PHOTOS SLIDE SHOW

SEMI - CIRCUMNAVIGATION of ANTARCTICA

A talk by

Captain R. R. Mathews MNI
23rd. February 2005

Index

Page. Content.

1. Map of Antarctica

2. Kapitan Khlebnikov specifications

3. Kapitan Khlebnikov side elevation.

4. Kapitan Khlebnikov deck plan

5. Chronology of Approach to the South Pole

6 - 10 Principal expeditions of the Heroic Age ( 1895-1917),

their significance and huts

1898-1900 Borchgrevink

11 - 12 Antarctic birds ( south of the Convergence )

13. Marine mammals of Antarctica.

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott. For a winter
. journey, Wilson. For a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen, and, if I am in the
devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

Apsley Cherry- Garrard