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 tiabunna's Antarctica Travelogues | | | | Title [Click to view] | Travel Year | Pictures | | Southern Ocean | January, 2006 |  5 | | Mawson's Hut | December, 2005 | 6 | | South in Iceberg Territory | December, 2005 | 8 |
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| Page Views: 1,161 Last Visit to Antarctica: December, 2005 I Used To Live Here | South in Iceberg Territory by tiabunna - last update: Feb 13, 2006 |
With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Drifting snow off iceberg |
You just have to be impressed by icebergs. I suspect that it's impossible to take too many photos of them. And, for my money, the best poem about the Antarctic and icebergs was written by Coleridge.
Back in 1797, probably inspired by Captain Cook's circumnavigation of Antarctica, Coleridge wrote a marvellous poem"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". In it, he told the salutory tale of an old seaman who turned up at a wedding and related his misadventures at sea. These began when his ship was blown far to the south and caught in mist and ice. Later an albatross came along and brought winds, which took the ship north again - at which stage the old sailor made the fatal mistake of shooting the albatross...... but that's another story. |
|  | Extract from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" "..... The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
The southward aye we fled." |
| Mackellar Islands & iceberg |
| | And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald. |
| Sailing close by an iceberg |
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| | The land of ice, and of fearful sounds where no living thing was to be seen. |
| | And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken ---
The ice was all between. |
| | The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound! |
| | Finally, an albatross came along and the wind returned....... |
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| tiabunna's Antarctica Travelogues | | | | Title [Click to view] | Travel Year | Pictures | | Southern Ocean | January, 2006 | 5 | | Mawson's Hut | December, 2005 | 6 | | South in Iceberg Territory | December, 2005 | 8 |
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Knoto Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:37 UTC
Wow, I`m impressed!Sounds like an wonderful trip!Great pictures!!!Greetings from Germany,Peter | barbskie Sun Feb 24, 2008 11:42 UTC
Your tip is featured today. What a wonderful picture ! | Acirfa Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:36 UTC
I have run out of time to finish reading this but am loving it so will be back, what an adventure, fantastic. This is really making the most of travel and our world. | Pawtuxet Mon Nov 26, 2007 15:57 UTC
You must have seen the news about the ship that went down in Ant. this past week. Scarey. All rescued, thank goodness. PS....still adore that dog on your cover photo. |
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