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Young Seal
Deception Island. South Shetlands. Off Antarctic Pennisula. Telefon Bay.
There were two very young seals laying on the beach at Telefon Bay. The expedition team had put up flags or other markers indicating we were not to get within perhaps 20 feet of them. They did not seem to mind that we were there.
We saw seals on shore at one other landing (that I can recall). Except for penguins, those were the only "land animals" that I recall seeing in Antarctica (and both seals and penguins are largely "sea animals". There were several kind of flying birds on land (penguins do not fly). Also saw seals swimming and on floating chunks of ice.
(26 Nov 2010)
