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• Question for anyone who was on the MS Fram

  
  Cruise Critic Message Boards — Authority: 180
  After searching long and hard it looks like the MS Fram is the only ship that fits our budget, itinerary and time we can go. So I am looking at the 17 day trip in December 2010. The trip goes to South Georgia as well as the Antarctic. My question is with a capacity of 300 people how did you handle landings (since only ...
  11 hours ago

• My favourite albums of the decade #19

  
  Asleep on the Compost Heap — Authority: 116
  #19 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica If I was making a list of the worst album covers of the decade, this badboy would score a lot higher. What sort of an offensive mess is it anyway? It looks like a shitty programme of events from an international irrigation solutions conference, or a still frame from ...
  1 day ago

• Some Cool Videos From The Bottom of The World

  
  Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal — Authority: 124
  A week from tonight, I’ll be on my way to Antarctica. Ann Posegate of NEEF, and I are about to embark on a trip that will take us to the bottom of the World, and to the South Pole itself. Our  goal is to share the journey and the science with those of you who read [...]
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• NEW Cruise Reviews: Two Antarctica Expeditions

  
  Cruise Diva — Authority: 424
  Antarctica Expeditions: Insight On Two Very Different ExperiencesWas one more satisfying than the other? Read what Joe Reynolds reports from his expedition aboard Professor Multanovskiy and compare it to the more well-known National Geographic Explorer as detailed by P Modo.While both expeditions delivered on the ...
  1 day ago

• Denizens Of The Antarctic Deep

  
  Thinking Outside — Authority: 132
  Less ice means more ocean, and the strange creatures that can live there, are open to discovery . Sea pigs, giant sea spiders, ice fish, octopus, rare rays and basket stars that live in the seas of Antarctica’s continental shelf are revealed in a series of new photographs released today by the British Antarctic ...
  1 day ago

• Research: Eco-tourists causing "horrendous" pollution in Antarctica

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 559
  Eco-tourists travelling to Antarctica are adding to global warming which is melting the polar ice caps, new research has found. read more
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• Notes From Antarctica: Its Not Too Cold to Embrace Renewable Power

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 617
  Photo of the E-base by John Luck King Georges Island, one of the northern-most points of Antarctica, was once a popular whaling and sealing base, but is now is home to small outposts of scientists from twelve countries. The Russian and Chilean stations, Bellingshausen and Eduardo Frei, sit only meters apart, forming ...
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• Announcing: The Bus2Antarctica

  
  Intelligent Travel Blog — Authority: 551
  Its been a big year for our contributing editor Andrew Evans . Hes helped us learn how to track lions in Africa , hes smuggled home lobsters from Maine , and he made his foray into reality television . But on January 1, 2010, hes going to embark on a real adventure. Well let him explain the details... I am ...
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• Found object, missing owner

  
  Antarctic conservation blog — Authority: 109
  One set of pastels. Well used. Check. Found at Captain Scott’s 1910 – 13 base at Cape Evans. Good condition. Check. Owner … er … oh … unknown. The box of pastels © Antarctic Heritage Trust Unfortunately this brilliant and evocative object can offer a tantalising insight into life on the ...
  2 days ago

• Notes From Antarctica: It’s All About the Treaty

  
  EcoGreenius — Authority: 172
  Photo of Bellingshausen signpost by Eva Jacobus Its hard not to appreciate the utopian intentions of an entire continent formally dedicated to science and international peace. There was a brief, shining moment in human history where crazy things like that worked, and Antarctica got lucky. And its hard not to ...
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• Global warming point of no return

  
  Connecting the Dots — Authority: 128
  In some disaster movies there is an ingenious idiot that seems to bypass or disable some safety feature or failsafe causing a horrendous catastrophe. As with all good movies, they have their basis in reality, and in Copenhagen during the last chance climate summit we may have just seen that happen. The two things ...
  2 days ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Live from Antartica: part 5

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Stories , Antarctica , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism I spent part of this early Antarctic morning on the back deck of the ship reading a summary of the past eleven days events in Copenhagen, a long story downloaded at very slow rate from the New York Times. Between readings I looked ...
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• Expedition Review: On Board the MV Orion

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Oceania , Antarctica , Australia , New Zealand , Ecotourism , Cruises Where do people go when theyve already been everywhere? On a ship that goes to places nobody else can get to. The MV Orion is such a ship, custom-built for expedition-style travel that takes you to the worlds more ...
  2 days ago

• Judging by the name adventure travel is the opposite

  
  hotcrew57.com — Authority: 147
  Judging by the name adventure travel is the opposite of passive enjoyment of scenery. Direct integration with nature is possible with the activity programs used here as they raise the energy level while maintaining the thrill. Vacations like these require locations that allow for exploration and further research. ...
  3 days ago

• Ant. Cruise Review Lindblad Nov 2009

  
  Cruise Critic Message Boards — Authority: 180
  In November 2009, we went on a Lindblad-National Geographic Cruise in Antarctica on the National Geographic Explorer. The expedition operations (site selection, Zodiacing, hiking, kayaking, etc.) were spectacular. We never felt rushed and everything was professionally run. There were usually 2 landings a day, weather ...
  3 days ago

• The Drake Passage

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 129
  We began our travel through the Drake Passage around midnight. The gentle rocking of the boat became more intense. What seemed to many as a rough ride was actually considered surprisingly calm weather by the crew. A few people got sick but I think overall people are okay, often a bit sleepy from the nausea ...
  3 days ago

• Notes From Antarctica: Its More Than Just Cold, Snowy, and Melting

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 617
  Photo by Eva Jacobus The news out of Antarctica is often less than positive - unprecedented ice loss in the Antarctic Peninsula, collapsing ice shelves, threats to wildlife. But it also provides some reasons for hope, and some inspiring stories. So, for a few days, were going to look at the positive news to come ...
  3 days ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Live from Antartica: part 4

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Photos , Stories , Antarctica , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism WHITE THUNDER, NEKO HARBOUR, ANTARCTICA, DAY 4 Sitting atop a bared brown rock on top of a thousand-foot hill looking out over a relatively ice-free harbor - Neko, one of the most beautiful along the Peninsula, though even as I ...
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• Embarkation Day

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 129
  It was quite an adventure getting from Washington, D.C., to Ushuaia, our embarkation point in southern Argentina. Over the course of 29 hours, we took three flights via four airports before arriving at “el fin del mundo.” Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, is nestled between the Beagle Channel and the ...
  4 days ago

• Snapshots of Antarctica from Chris Davenport

  
  The Outside Blog — Authority: 574
  Chris Davenport and a team of skiers, who just spent a few weeks ski mountaineering in Antarctica, returned Stateside yesterday, but not without some eye-catching bounty. Here are the latest pics of the teams first descents from Davenports point-and-shoot.  The Sphinx, center, is a 1,700-plus-foot smooth face ...
  4 days ago

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