{"id":71738,"date":"2021-07-29T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T01:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=71738"},"modified":"2024-02-26T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:59:59","slug":"captain-palmers-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=71738","title":{"rendered":"Stonington, CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Stonington, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stonington,_Connecticut\">settled in 1649<\/a> in CT, is very charming: stone is SEEN everywhere. Population 18,335 (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stonington,_Connecticut\">2020 census<\/a>). Most photos are taken at the house of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89814\">Captain Nathaniel Palmer<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathaniel_Palmer\">1799<\/a>-1877), which was built in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capt._Nathaniel_B._Palmer_House\">1852<\/a>-54, a museum now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89103\">Shackleton<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=9723\">The 1st woman to Antarctic<\/a>: Jackie Ronne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=9723\">Stonington Island<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=88784\">Antarctic<\/a>, named after Cape. Nathaniel Palmer (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathaniel_Palmer\">1799<\/a>-1877) when he saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89250\">Antarctic Peninsula<\/a>, the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica\u00a0on 1820.11.17 on his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sloop\">sloop<\/a> \u5355\u6845\u5e06\u8239\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hero_(sloop)\"><em>Hero<\/em><\/a>. That area would be known as Palmer Land nowadays (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antarctic_Peninsula\">wiki<\/a>: Graham Land in UK, O&#8217;Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Mart\u00edn in Argentina). He was a seal hunter and explorer. \u00a0Stonington Island was used as the site for the East Base of US Antarctic Service Expedition (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Antarctic_Service_Expedition\">1939<\/a>-41).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-medium wp-image-71751\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0336-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71751\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0336-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0336-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0336-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0336-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0336-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0336-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71740\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0191-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0191-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71742\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0197-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0197-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71744\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0205-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71744\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0205-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71746\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0212-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0212-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71747\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0294-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0294-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71748\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0323-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0323-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71749\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0329-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0329-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71750\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0334-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-71750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_0334-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Stonington, settled in 1649 in CT, is very charming: stone is SEEN everywhere. Population 18,335 (2020 census). Most photos are taken at the house of Captain Nathaniel Palmer (1799-1877), which was built in 1852-54, a museum now. Shackleton The 1st woman to Antarctic: Jackie Ronne There is Stonington Island in Antarctic, named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71738"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89825,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71738\/revisions\/89825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}