Antarctica -- October-November 2010

Buenos Aires. Argentina. Eva Perone is interred here. This cemetery contains about 5000 of these small private mausoleums, and no ordinary graves. The cemetery is full. People who want to be buried there now have to buy out one of the current occupants. Recoleta is also apparently the name of the district of the city where this is located.

(18 Nov 2010)

This is a downtown cemetery where Eva Perone is buried. There seem to be no “single” graves here. It is all small private (family) masaleoums – around 5000 of them.

The times printed on some of these photos correspond to US Eastern Standard Time (UT-5) – the clock in the camera was never reset. Argentina operates on UT-3. Thus, when the US East Coast was at 10:16 (am), as shown here, the actual local time in Argentina was 12:16 pm. The cruise ship to Antarctica operated on Argentina time during the entire trip. However, once we got to Antarctica, it never really got dark at “night” so accurate local times were not critical.