1947 Antarctic Expedition with the Great Global Explorer: Georges de Giorgio Part 1

Georges de Giorgio was born in a car wreck in France while his
father, Italian Count of Santoponte, raced his mother of chilean
indian/spanish decent to Italy--where he was supposed to be born.
George's father moved the family to Chile at the age of 4 where he
grew up working in his father's wooden ship boatyard. In 1947 at
the age of 17, Georges joined an American Expedition to Antarctica
becoming the youngest person to ever spend a year there. Georges
lived a month alone on the Palmer Penninsula plateau, was the first
to cross from the Atlantic to Pacific by dogsled with a joint
British/American party, & has a mountain named after him.
Because Georges was Chilean, his presence secured the Chilean claim
to Antarctica.

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