Alexis Averbuck

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Alexis Averbuck


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Oakland, CA, The United States
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Alexis Averbuck is a painter and writer. She earned her degree at Harvard University, and has travelled and lived all over the world, from Sri Lanka to Zanzibar. Alexis crossed the Pacific by sailboat, lived in Antarctica for a year, and paints, photographs, and publishes books on her journeys for Lonely Planet travel guides, the BBC, magazines and online platforms. She’s had solo exhibitions of her oil paintings and watercolors, and also promotes travel and adventure in video and on television, recently starring in a program on Catalunya.

Through her travels, Alexis fell in love with Greece and made the island of Hydra her home; she now also lives in New York City.

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Pocket Reykjavík 1

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Lonely Planet Experience Fr...

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Travel Guide California

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Lonely Planet Austria

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Crete Travel Guide

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Francia on the road

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“sorting out the meteorites from what we call the ‘meteorongs’ and ‘leaveorite’ (leave ’er right there) specimens.”
Alexis Averbuck, Antarctica

“Warren Zapol has been to Antarctica countless times and has led nine expeditions to study the diving mechanisms of the Weddell seal. This led to a treatment for hypoxic human newborns which is now used to save the lives of 10,000 babies each year in the US.”
Alexis Averbuck, Antarctica

“WWII interrupted the plans of many explorers, although a secret Nazi expedition in 1938–39, led by Alfred Ritscher, was dispatched to Antarctica by Field Marshal Hermann Göring. Göring was interested both in claiming territory and in protecting Germany’s growing whaling fleet. The expedition used seaplanes to overfly vast stretches of the ice sheet, dropping 1.5m darts inscribed with swastikas to establish sovereignty”
Alexis Averbuck, Antarctica



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