Polar Plunge - June 2008
Continental Landing
By Blog.Admin
Today we set foot on the Antarctic Peninsula, at Neko Harbour! The landing site was located on Andvord Bay, and the beach was covered with Gentoo penguins.
Expedition-style Travel
By Blog.Admin
26 February 2009 10pm
Rarely does a visit to Antarctica commence with disappointment. Unhappily for us the bad weather we experienced on the Drake Passage remained with us for our first day in the South Shetlands. We anticipated that our first landing scheduled for Hannah Point on Livingstone Island would be adversely affected so we altered course for Half Moon Island which unfortunately did not provide shelter from the 40 plus knot gusts sweeping across the Southern Ocean. We dropped anchor and 7 minutes later we weighed anchor and made for Deception Island hoping that wind conditions in
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- Adelies
- Antarctica - Great Antarctic Explorers
- Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins
- black sand beach
- Brown Bluff
- Cape Petrels
- Captain Idar
- Deception Island
- Drake Passage
- Esperanza Base
- Explorers' Route - Feb. 21 - Mar. 12
- Fridtjof Sound
- Fur seals
- Gentoos
- Hope Bay
- Kelp gulls
- Nathaniel Palmer
- Neptune's Bellows
- Otto Nordenskjold's Swedish Antarctic Expedition
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- snow petrels
- South Shetlands
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Continental Landing and Crossing The Antarctic Circle
By Blog.Admin
17 February 2009, 10.15pm
I guess by now if you’ve been surfing the Quark website you will have seen the news of the day. I haven’t seen the full press release but understand it’s pretty comprehensive so I wont go into much more detail except to say all on board the Clipper Adventurer are in good spirits, everyone is understanding and happy to assist.
Polar Plunge!
By Blog.Admin
8 February 2009
Antarctica has thrown everything at us in the past two days. We’ve had sunshine, strong winds, rain and snow, however, it has not deterred anyone from getting outside and experiencing all the Peninsula has to offer. Twenty five hardy souls even managed a polar plunge!
Yesterday morning we visited Vernadsky station, a Ukrainian station in the Argentine Islands and nearby Wordie House, a historic site named after Sir Ernest Shackleton’s chief of scientific staff on the famous Endurance expedition of 1914-1916.
Vernadsky was purchased by the Ukraine from the British Governme
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- Adelies
- Aitcho Island
- Antarctica - Great Antarctic Explorers
- Argentina
- Blue-eyed Shag
- Bransfield Strait
- Chinstraps
- Classic Antarctica - Feb. 2 - 12
- Crabeaters
- Danco Island
- David Sinclair
- Endurance
- Gentoos
- icebergs
- Lemaire Channel
- Leopard seals
- Peninsula
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- Port Charcot
- Port Lockroy
- Sir Ernest Shackleton
- Ukrainian station
- Vernadsky station
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Polar Plunge
By Blog.Admin
July 1, 2008
Hello Everybody!
This Arctic voyage has been even better than I anticipated.