From the 1993/94 Orient Lines Marco Polo brochure...
Paulet Island and Hope Bay
Hope Bay is home to a huge Adelie penguin rookery, and also a sizeable
Argentine scientific station with its own mayor, post office and school. In
fact, it was at Hope Bay that the first child born in Antarctica was
delivered. If conditions permit, we'll attempt to reach Paulet Island and the
large penguin rookery, nesting cormorants, and a long abandoned hut from the
Swedish.
From the 1994 Orient Lines Grand Antarctic Circumnavigation brochure...
Heading toward Hope Bay and the Argentinian station of Esperanza, Adelies pop
out of the water onto floating bits of pack ice. A small development has been
established at Hope Bay and includes a school, church, and mayor. Little
scientific research is conducted at this station which serves more as a home
to military personnel, and as the administrative center for other Argentine
stations in the region.
Well over one million Adelies breed among the gentle slopes and ice-covered
shores of Paulet Island. Ice floes serve as resting places for slumbering
seals, and penguins race madly through the water at astonishing speed. Here
one can see the stone hut of the Nordenskjold expedition, abandoned here in
1903. Twenty-three men stayed on this island, their ship crushed and broken
by the extreme pressure of the treacherous pack ice. One man died, and his
grave, marked by a cairn and cross, can still be seen.
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