From the vantage point of the bow of Le Commandant Charcot, we break through the ice of the Weddell Sea!
Rosamel Island is off to our port side - a circular island with precipitous cliffs of volcanic rock rising to a snow-covered peak 435 meters (1,427 ft) high. Discovered by the French expedition, 1837-40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for V. Admiral Claude de Rosamel, French Minister of Marine under whose orders the expedition sailed.
