Basically there's more happening down that way than is led on. Can use Marinetraffic.com and Strava.com to get some ideas of stuff going on. Using Google earth it's ridiculous how much generic white blurred out and even black images you get around most of antarctica.
There's no reason to launch a satellite to cover down there and even most "satellite" map images are actually from aerial survey aircraft.
It's hard to say what we're seeing in your photo, but Deception Island with that big protect natural harbor seems like a great place for ships to ride out weather, especially since that whole passage down around the tip of South America can be absolutely brutal to cross with notoriously horrible weather and was a huge factor in the HMS Bounty and it's mutiny as they spent a month trying to get around the Horn, before the Captain said fuck it and instead sailed east instead of west.
OK, but they run site seeing tours through Deception Island. Those boats are just tourists thinking they got to see antarctic, when in fact they're just visiting an old abandoned port.
Basically there's more happening down that way than is led on. Can use Marinetraffic.com and Strava.com to get some ideas of stuff going on. Using Google earth it's ridiculous how much generic white blurred out and even black images you get around most of antarctica.
There's no reason to launch a satellite to cover down there and even most "satellite" map images are actually from aerial survey aircraft.
It's hard to say what we're seeing in your photo, but Deception Island with that big protect natural harbor seems like a great place for ships to ride out weather, especially since that whole passage down around the tip of South America can be absolutely brutal to cross with notoriously horrible weather and was a huge factor in the HMS Bounty and it's mutiny as they spent a month trying to get around the Horn, before the Captain said fuck it and instead sailed east instead of west.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bounty
OK, but they run site seeing tours through Deception Island. Those boats are just tourists thinking they got to see antarctic, when in fact they're just visiting an old abandoned port.