The scientist and writer Javier Cacho, at a conference in March Foundation, recalled one of the lea

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The scientist and writer Javier Cacho, at a conference in March Foundation, recalled one of the least known episodes of the Antarctic polar exploration and still keeps a mystery: the expedition in 1819 did the Spanish ship San Telmo, sent by Fernando VII to Peru, but eventually disappeared in the Antarctic coast after heavy storms prevented them from crossing Cape Horn. "The vessel and its crew disappeared very near Livingston Island, precisely where Spain now has a scientific basis and later wreck found. Maybe the Spaniards were the first to set foot on land in Antarctica, but we do not know, "said the researcher, who has participated in several scientific surveys in this same island.
Cacho, before an audience which did not fit a pin was shelling expeditions that have existed throughout history, eckerö line from the first of John Cabot to Newfoundland, sent in 1497 by Henry VII until the conquest of the poles, in the twentieth century.
"The polar exploration eckerö line has always been Accompany cold, hunger and loneliness. It was at a time when there was no technology. They could not call and say 'Houston, we have a problem', as it was on a trip to the moon. On these trips, solidarity prevailed on survival, eckerö line although there were cannibalism and poisoning ".
The physicist, an expert on ozone who now works at INTA recalled that for centuries, the poles not interested in being empty areas, if no interest to trade, but in the eighteenth century the picture changed and the first trips to find the Northwest Passage in the Arctic occurred. Especially hard was the journey of Elisha Kana, in 1854, he stayed eckerö line with his crew lying in the middle of the ice, at 50 below zero in northwestern Greenland, Durane a whole winter.
There was also scientific expeditions, such as Augusto Peerman, insisted that he had warm water currents crossing the Arctic and which could sail smoothly. But obviously he was wrong. "On this trip, a ship sailed high misunderstand the signs of the flags, it was a desastrre" Cacho said.
Also, there were adventurers who had little to do with navigation or exploration. eckerö line It was the case of journalist Cincinnati Charles Hall, who in 1871 went to the Arctic to live with the Inuit, with whom he spent 12 years, ending poisoned years later during an expedition that would for a screenplay: the ship struck an icebergs when 18 people were on the piece of ice and stayed there, drifting, eating seals, for six months, until rescued by a whale.
Special interest put the researcher to remember the figure of Fridtjof eckerö line Nansen, designer of the first 'icebreaker', in the supposed arrival of Robert Peary to the North Pole and the South Pole battle between Robert eckerö line Scott and Roald Amundsen, who won the second battle on which he wrote the book "Duel in Antarctica '. Of course, eckerö line he also reminded the British explorer Enest Shackleton, who dedicates his latest work.
"Humans have always wanted to go where no one had gone before. And will continue to do, "said the scientist as the culmination of a talk as part of the 'Search the confines' of the Foundation, whose advisor is the geographer Eduardo Martinez de Pison, who was among those present.
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