Become a Scientist for a Week in an Antarctic Science Camp

Happy Holidays from Antarctic Science Camp on King George island. Lots to see and do! Great program for those who want to experience a different side of Antarctic Life! Glad I signed up for this adventure!

This was a great and rare opportunity to see part of Antarctica in detail. It was a unique experience to really get to know the coast and landscape of this area and enjoy the wildlife of penguins, seals and elephant seals. Staying at the Bellingshausen Science Station adds context and understanding to an extraordinary Antarctic experience.

You can tell it in a colorful and lengthy way. To put it briefly: Thank you (with a capital T!) to Marine Practice and personally to Konstantin Popov for the unique opportunity to fulfill a childhood dream of 'becoming' a polar explorer in my mature years!!!
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I’d like to share my impressions from an Antarctic sailing expedition in 2022. As I told my friends that I’d like to SAIL to Antarctica (and I don’t have any licenses and only a very little sailing experience), there were 2 opinions, either "Oh, cool!!", or "You're crazy!!". Now I can say that both were right. It was a really cool, but a little bit crazy expedition. To sail through the Drake’s passage — it’s a unique experience! As a reward after 4 days you see the shore…

We could visit a several research stations, islands with penguin colonies, sea leopards and, of course, the whales. We were lucky to sail with a very professional crew — they made it possible to sail through the iceberg field. That made us feel to visit an other world in all shades of blue.

I’m travelling a lot since my childhood. I saw the geysers of Iceland, deserts of Mongolia, landscapes of “Lord of the Ring” in New Zealand, waterfalls of La Reunion, Bahá’í Gardens in Israel, lakes of Canada, bears of the Arctic, old timers on the roads of Cuba, volcanos of Kamchatka and many other fascinating places of the world. But the trip to Antarctic in February 2022 is difficult to exceed, actually impossible. Extraordinary experience with fantastic people on the sail boat. It is like a trip to another planet full of pinguins, seals, whales, dolphins and seabirds. As the backstage for them are the breathtaking landscapes of ice mountains and meditation peace. And as a company – small family of sailors, who shared with me the night shifts, ice swimming and pancakes (mmm, our cook – it is a separate topic:)) middle of the nowhere. And the worst thing about it – I wish to do it again even more, than I wished before (it was my dream since 20 years).