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Travel Antarctica | Antarctic Cruises | Cruise Antarctica: December 2014

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Order Free Antarctic Cruise Brochures. Wednesday, December 10, 2014. New Ponant Antarctica Brochure. PONANT's 2015-2016 ANTARCTIC CRUISES. The world’s only French-flagged cruise line and top cruise line worldwide in polar expeditions for 15 years, PONANT’s itineraries to the Antarctic for the 2015-2016 season include, for the first time, three ships in the region plus an itinerary that includes the Sub Antarctic Islands of Australia and New Zealand. Voyage examples: (current pricing, subject to increase).

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Travel Antarctica | Antarctic Cruises | Cruise Antarctica: Save A$1500 Per Couple and Stay Two Nights For Free on Extended Antarctic Expedition

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Order Free Antarctic Cruise Brochures. Thursday, July 2, 2015. Save A$1500 Per Couple and Stay Two Nights For Free on Extended Antarctic Expedition. Australian polar travel specialist, Active Travel, is offering an international flight saving of A$1500 per couple as well as two free nights in Ushuaia for bookings on an 18-night voyage by ice-strengthened expedition ship to Antarctica this October. Including onboard lectures, meals and zodiac excursions, the 20-night package is available from US$14,495 pe...

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Travel Antarctica | Antarctic Cruises | Cruise Antarctica: PONANT - Last Minute Savings on Antarctica Cruises

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Order Free Antarctic Cruise Brochures. Saturday, May 9, 2015. PONANT - Last Minute Savings on Antarctica Cruises. Up to 25% off select 2015 departures. Have you dreamed of discovering the legendary White Continent? Antarctica holds the promise of a unique journey through an icy vastness where the sun hesitates between day and night. The silence is broken only by the crackling of ice pans or the clinking of ice in your cocktail glass. From: $12,120* pp twin share  . Learn more here  . 160;    .

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Travel Antarctica | Antarctic Cruises | Cruise Antarctica: February 2014

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Order Free Antarctic Cruise Brochures. Tuesday, February 4, 2014. Opinion: Shokalskiy stranding to boost interest in Antarctic tourism. Passengers disembark from a Chinese helicopter during the rescue (Yahoo! Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.". 8211; Ernest Shackleton. It may seem like a contradiction, but the recent rescue of 52 stranded scientists and passengers. All the trustees w...

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North Pole Travel: March 2014

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Travel to the high arctic and beyond. 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide. Sunday, March 2, 2014. Discovery of the North Pole (1909). By GENERAL A. W. GREELY. For these and other reasons the production from time to time of summaries of polar voyages and explorations are most valuable, as tending to keep alive in the rising generation that interest in the mysterious and wonderful in nature, as well as in adventurous action, which the Polar World peculiarly presents. While the wonderful journey of Shackleton to th...

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North Pole Travel: September 2013

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Travel to the high arctic and beyond. 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Join a Real North Pole Expedition. Located some five hundred kilometres north of the arctic circle in the icy Chukchi Sea is the forlorn landmass of Wrangel Island. So remote and isolated is this frozen land that it was not properly mapped until the early 20th Century, and then inadvertently, when wildly over-optimistic explorers washed up, shipwrecked, on its shores. Named after Baron Ferdinand Petrovich Wr...

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North Pole Travel: The North Pole Debate Still Rages

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Travel to the high arctic and beyond. 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide. Monday, June 21, 2010. The North Pole Debate Still Rages. Last year, to celebrate the anniversary, British explorer Tom Avery recreated Peary's trek using replica equipment and dog sleds and actually completed the trek in less time despite a much thinner ice pack. Today, the Arktika's sister ship, 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory), makes annual sorties to the exact location of the geographic North Pole thanks to modern satellite navigat...

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North Pole Travel: 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide

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Travel to the high arctic and beyond. 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide. 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide. Is Adventure Cruising the Purest Form of ecotourism? It seems like only yesterday I was writing the introduction to the 2009 edition of the Adventure Cruise Guide. It was a year immersed in financial troubles where many cruise companies, large and small, feared for their survival. As time moves on, it seems increasingly clear we have sailed out of the fog bank of uncertainty and into a whole new world. It is n...

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North Pole Travel: June 2010

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Travel to the high arctic and beyond. 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide. Monday, June 21, 2010. Russia Goes the Atomic Route. It’s 1957. The Cold War is at its peak and Russia is on a roll. Sputnik 1 launched on October 4 and shortly thereafter, Russia launched the world’s first nuclear powered surface ship, the 19,000 ton icebreaker Lenin. Six Arktika-class vessels have been constructed, with the latest; the 50 Let Pobedy launched just this year after an interrupted building schedule that began in 1989. I...

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North Pole Travel: Krassin to the Rescue

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Travel to the high arctic and beyond. 2010 Adventure Cruise Guide. Monday, June 21, 2010. Krassin to the Rescue. It was May 1928 and the age of the mighty airship. The famous Italian dirigible captain who, just two years before, was feted as a hero and promoted to General after piloting Amundsen and Ellsworth to the Pole in an airship of his own design, was about to enter the realms of history again – for all the wrong reasons. Built in Britain in 1916 to a Russian design and originally named Svaytogor, ...