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Along Antarctic Pennisula to Brown Bluff
Now were continued north (as indicated earlier, Petermann Island was the southernmost point). We cruised along the west side of the Antarctic Pennisula (in the Bransfield Starit), then entered the Antarctic Strait.
I believe the Antarctic Strait is called Iceberg Alley. However, we saw drifting icebergs the entire morning as we went up the north portion of the west coast of the pennisula (that is, we started seeing icebergs well before entering what they call Icebery Alley).
The AIt's the route traveled by icebergs that calf off of the Larsen Ice Shelf, I think the white area in the lower left portion of this map/chart is at least part of the Larsen Ice Shelf. There may be more of the shelf off below what's shown at the lower left part of this map. The body of water (and floating ice shown on the right hand side of this chart is the Weddel Sea, which has two or three other large ice shelves in it. Some of the icebergs we saw may have come from these other ice shelves.
