An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers.
After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world.
A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others.
In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
Contents
Foreward
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
Chapter III - Nine to Five
Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
Chapter V - Kindred Souls
Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
Chapter VIII - Albatross
Chapter IX - Elephantastic
Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
Chapter XII - The Wild Side
Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
Index
Notes
Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
General colour: green. Four men are rowing while one poles a long barge up from the bottom left through turbulent water. Another boat moves across to the left on the right side near the trees which cut the picture horizontally in half. Above the trees is sky.signed lr: “E.C.W.Lamarque 1955”
General colour: green. Four men are rowing while one poles a long barge up from the bottom left through turbulent water. Another boat moves across to the left on the right side near the trees which cut the picture horizontally in half. Above the trees is sky.signed lr: “E.C.W.Lamarque 1955”
Three masted schooner and buoy; inscribed J.D. poss. representing schooner name? and GCW 1929 initials in blc; brc signed George C. Wales. Poss. purchased in New England.
Three masted schooner and buoy; inscribed J.D. poss. representing schooner name? and GCW 1929 initials in blc; brc signed George C. Wales. Poss. purchased in New England.
Round silver pins. (a) 4 people in a boat with oars, laurel wreath bottom balf, top have etched "B.B.C. 1928" obverse: "Men 2nd" (b) 2 people in a boat with oars, same as (a), obverse same as (a). Each has a silver loop at top for hanging.
Round silver pins. (a) 4 people in a boat with oars, laurel wreath bottom balf, top have etched "B.B.C. 1928" obverse: "Men 2nd" (b) 2 people in a boat with oars, same as (a), obverse same as (a). Each has a silver loop at top for hanging.
Banff Boating Club trophy on black wood base. Tall, silver amphora-like trophy "The Banff Boating Club Annual Regatta --1913--presented by Supt. S.J.Clarke/Ladies and Gents Canoe Half-Mile Race", engraved canoe above. Round, lathe turned base holds three sheild-shaped silver name plates for "M. H…
Banff Boating Club trophy on black wood base. Tall, silver amphora-like trophy "The Banff Boating Club Annual Regatta --1913--presented by Supt. S.J.Clarke/Ladies and Gents Canoe Half-Mile Race", engraved canoe above. Round, lathe turned base holds three sheild-shaped silver name plates for "M. Horner/D. Winters--1928 M. Vernon/J.Porter-1929 D. Standish/N. Duncan-1931" Maker stamp amd "A 11" underneath base of cup.
Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia…
Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia. shows 2 people in a canoe, wreath along bottom edge.