Well, you need to be: a citizen of Malaysia, a scientist, it helps to be a woman and you need to be totally devoted to go on an Antarctica vacation, OOPS you need to be totally devoted to go on a polar research mission… Polar Research Malaysia Each year, Malaysia sends an average of 14 [...]
"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.