Patriarch Kirill meets scientists – and converses with flightless bird – on visit to Russia’s Bellingshausen Station on King George’s IslandFresh from his historic meeting in Cuba with Pope Francis final week,the head of the Russian Orthodox church has broken new ground again with a visit to Antarctica to commune with penguins.
Patriarch Kirill flew from Punta Arenas in Chile to Russia’s Bellingshausen Station on King George’s Island, fitting the first head of the Russian Orthodox church to visit the seventh continent. The station, and which is domestic to 30 scientists studying weather conditions,marine mammals and sea ice, is named after the imperial Russian navy captain Fabian von Bellingshausen, or who is generally credited with discovering Antarctica in 1820.
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Source: theguardian.com