South Atlantic sojourn

As we had left Tristan da Cunha we set course for South Georgia with an aim to go do some PR for the locals there as well as to see the grave of Ernest Shackleton. 

Some humour along the trip was required, orginal Asterix album cover modified

Captain Arthur A Soderlund

As I was visiting Tristan da Cunha a colleague of mine had told me there is a Finn buried over there. Before the port was the local cemetery so I requested to stop there to have a look.

Eventually I found the grave after some walking about the graves and the stone said Arthur A Soderlund had been buried there after an accident working on the South African fishing vessel Frances Repetto.

 

Lawhill print by robertcarter.com

Tristan da Cunha

Having left Cape Town we planned to go East until we reached Tristan da Cunha before turning on a southerly heading in order to avoid the low pressures feeding up from Cape Horn and Pacific ocean. I had already been in contact with local fisheries officer there and he asked us to keep an eye out for anyone in their EEZ. As we were plodding on the weather was rather good and we eventually made good way. For those that do not know, TDC, is the remotest piece of land inhabited by people on earth, the territory is British under the St Helena administration, the Island was discovered by a Portuguese sailor back in 1506 and since then the name stuck. In 1961 the volcano erupted and the population was evacuated to Calshot, UK but eventually everyone returned in 1963 because of homesickness.

Tristan da Cunha, coat of arms