With Antarctica tours being a lucrative business, one wonders who owns Antarctica. Who has the rights to organize Antarctic tours on land and who do we ask about Antarctica and history? Not to mention who owns the oil and minerals hidden there? And who is responsible for the South Pole Conservation? Most likely not the [...]
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
~ Carved on the cross on Observation Hill to memorialize Scott's polar expedition
"I thought, dear, that you would rather have a live ass than a dead lion."
~ Sir Ernest Shackleton to his wife Emily, after deciding to turn back 97 miles from the South Pole
Quark Expeditions
For an Antarctica travel with the most adventure, good food and basic but warm accommodation.
Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Voyage)
From June 2008 the new MS Fram (built 2007) replaces the 1997 built Nordnorge.