"Crew of the mighty Frigate Silverton" – 23NO24 - 'Elephant Island to Robert Island Sailing Race!'

Top Five Race of the Weeks!

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An Antarcticar Brine Adventure!

"Sail oan muckers!" 😉 -Keptin

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1️⃣ Able Seaman trayan
2️⃣ Able Seaman daveks
3️⃣ Standing Officer-Carpenter jaraumoses
4️⃣ Standing Officer-Boatswain tesaganewton 🔺
5️⃣ Seaman pbock

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6 ruth-girl
7 tbnfl4sun
8 b00m ^
9 👻
10 👻

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trayan's runnin' awa' wi' th' race! (Blimey, will th' other sailurs ne'er learn hoo tae burst th' Reply button?! 🤨)

Whit's thes? tesaganewton takes a flag?! Braw sailin' mucker! Ye mus be warkin oan yer skills oan Lake Victoria? (Ahh forgets naethin'!😉)

Back eest, it's noo ruth-girl sailin' fur th' Constellations ✨Prize! (A fa'en staurn... 🌠🫤)

(8) ships oot oan th' open brine! 〰️〰️〰️ (1) ship tint tae violent storms ⛈️🌊 Th' Seamen dominatin' th' race! (Reply! Reply! Reply muckers!)" 😉 -Keptin

📝 "Th' followin' previoos Top Fife winners must sit-oot thes week's contest in fairness an' proper ship-side demeaner an' sae forth:

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1️⃣ tamaralovelace
2️⃣ giotists
3️⃣ fat-elvis
4️⃣ bulliontools
5️⃣ adcreatordesign
1️⃣ lupega
2️⃣ bleujay
3️⃣ kerrislravenhill
4️⃣ ironshield
5️⃣ cve3
1️⃣ pocketechange
2️⃣ trumpman
3️⃣ punkysdad
4️⃣ meesterboom
5️⃣ kevmcc

Th' Brazilian Antarcticar program maintains a shelter oan th' islain- Goeldi, supportin' th' wark o' up tae a scuttle researchers each durin' th' summer. (Bludy heel! A summer job oan Elephant Islain?! Ahh'd rather scrub decks! 🙄😶‍🌫️)

Elephant island's nam is attributed tae baith its elephant head-like appearance an' th' sightin' o' elephant seals by Keptin George Poweel, one o' th' earliest sightin's. In Russia, it is still knoon by th' nam given by its discoverers – Mordvinov Islain.

(A rock garden mebbee...?🤔🤨)

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References: - Pictures from: www.freeimages.com, www.pexels.com, pixabay.com, Hive.blog, Googlemaps, Maps-For, YouTube an' Wikipedia. Data also sometimes finely crafted reit from th' author's extensiff personal experience an' such.