Antarctica -- October-November 2010

Here the cat is next to a heater in one of the cell blocks now used as a museum. It looks like the heater was originally fueled with wood or coal, but has now been converted to use natural gas (or, perhaps more likely, propane -- given that almost everything used in Ushuaia comes in by ship). It looks as if a safety barrier has also been placed around the heater.

The heater/stove in an earlier photo (in the cell block left in prison-days conditon) had not been modfiied, but that cell block was not heated.

(3 Dec 2010)