iReport: Admiring penguins on South Georgia Island

Fri, 03/23/2012 - 00:29 — Anonymous by Jonathan Pozniak"South Georgia is
synonymous with three things: Shackleton, penguins and seasickness," says
iReporter Jonathan Pozniak. That is not far from the truth. South Georgia
Island is the home of one of the largest king penguin colonies on earth and
the resting place for Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish polar
explorer. It is one of the United Kingdom's overseas territories located in
the Antarctic. Pozniak shares his adventure and photos for our iReport
assignment -- "Adventure travel." Pozniak visited South Georgia Island on
Christmas Day 2010 after a three-day sail through 30-foot waves from South
America. As a fashion and beauty photographer from New York, Pozniak says the
first sight of untouched South Georgia through his binoculars was the most
unforgettable. "I think the coolest part was when you're approaching the
island, you've sailed for about three days through very choppy water and
you're exhausted and seasick and you see these giant mountains in the
horizon. And you take your binoculars and you see these little black and
white specks."read more