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For any other travellers or expeditions who are stuck in Punta Arenas, the team have spent today creating a handy interactive map of the town’s highlights. Click on the icons to find out more. You can zoom in and pan using the controls in the top left of the map.

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Only the bravest would hitch a lift. I personally don’t recommend it! This is what it has come to. We wait in our room for the phone to call. It seems like an eternity. At least we have the luxury of not having to carry our own luggage into Bellingshausen, since it was shipped out in anticipation yesterday. But when we will be joining it, I have no clue. Already Stuart’s emergency pants have been used and there is only so much air freshener in the world. But this is the nature of the beast. This is Antarctica. No one ever said that this would be easy, but I keep reminding myself that it will be worth it when touchdown on the runway.

We have just returned from Magallenes Island, approximately 20 miles north of Punta Arenas, where reside almost 200,000 penguins. I have never seen so many in my life. The island was incredible and we had a great time photographing and filming them go about their routine. To survive such incredible extremes in weather, they have to be pretty hardy. Penguins have evolved to function in the Antarctic winter, but humans have not. We will be guests in their habitat and between you and me, I hope they haven’t raided our bags and run off with my warm jumpers!

Justin
npower

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Well its day 5 poss. 6 not too sure really the days all kind of blur into one. We said goodbye to our personal luggage and turbines today, it’s a weird feeling our bags being flown out to Antarctica without us. I just wish we could have been with them, but that’s the beauty of Antarctica she only lets you in when she is ready and right now she isn’t ready for us.

The biggest thing for me as that every day here is a lost day in Antarctica for the other guys, see I was there last year so I know what she has to offer, but I’m sure she still has a few surprises for me!

But every day we are here it’s a lost day for the npower guys Stuart and Justin and also lost days for Jamie and Jonny and also the man Jake.

For whatever reason she doesn’t want us there right now but she will soon and when we do get there it will be such hard work but so worthwhile, so all your readers out there say a little pray gets us out there and keep watching, tell all your friends to watch and wish us all the best of luck, see all soon from Antarctica, until then think make the changes you can and keep watching.

Russell Oliver
npower/2041