Archive for November, 2007
Explorers’ last Antarctica cruise
Monday, November 26th, 2007Read our previous post about the sinking of the Antarctic cruise ship: the Explorer The Explorer was on a 19-day cruise of Antarctica and the Falkland Islands, near the South Shetland Islands, letting passengers observe penguins, whales and other wildlife. You could almost say that this Antarctic cruise was really inspired by the Antarctic explorations [...]
Why did the M/S Explorer hit an iceberg?
Friday, November 23rd, 2007At this very moment, the M/S Explorer Antarctica cruise ship has an about 23-degree list after it hit an iceberg nearby King George Island in Antarctica at 0524 GMT. The 100 passengers on board are rescued by lifeboats from 2 nearby cruiseships: the Endeavor and the well known Norwegian Nordnorge. What is intriguing though is [...]
Travel to Antarctica
Friday, November 16th, 2007Planning your Antarctica Travel Since you don’t take an Antarctica vacation every day, and the Antarctica travel season is only 4 months, you have all the time in the world to prepare yourself for your Antarctica Travel. Read about my Antarctica Vacation: an Antarctica Cruise on the Antarctica ship "Kapitan Dranitsyn". Read the Antarctica Travel [...]
George Island
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has expressed his concerns about climate change after making a historic visit to Antarctica. Historic because people like you and me need to fork out our own money if we want to take part in the Antarctica tourism… After seeing first hand the impact of rising temperatures, Mr Ban said [...]
China’s expedition to Antarctica
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007China goes to space, China hosts the 2008 Olympics… and yesterday November 12: 91 Chinese scientists leave Shanghai for a new Antarctica expedition. Chinese Antarctica cruise ship Xue Long (snow dragon) 188 Chinese go on a 5 months Antarctica expedition 91 Chinese scientists will reach Antarctica on the Xue Long Antarctica cruise ship, the rest [...]
How to get a free cruise to Antarctica?
Monday, November 12th, 2007If you have been browsing around to find out prices about Antarctica tours, you will surely know that any Antarctica cruise easily costs a minimum of about US $ 10.000… Why politicians love Antarctica trips Antarctica tourism on its best: fast travel by plane: Ban arriving at the at Chile’s Air Force base in Antarctica [...]
