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• Any treaty that keeps you from century-old Scotch…

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 674
  …is by definition a BAD TREATY . WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago. The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that ...
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• Adventure Travel – You’re Limited Only By Your Imagination

  
  Travel Blog — Authority: 441
  Those who need a break from work and want to go do something interactive and different turn to adventure travel. People who vacation this way open themselves up to experiencing traveling that challenges their physical capabilities. Adventure travel trips can be fashioned into those that match what a person requires ...
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• Antarctic whiskey

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 621
  An unusual expedition figures in today’s Geo Quiz. A team from New Zealand is planning to set out in January for Antarctica. The team’s mission is to visit the site of an old hut. The explorer Ernest Shackleton had it built about a century ago. The hut still stands. It looks out on the iceberg-clogged waters of ...
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• IceAxe.TV Antarctic Peninsula Ski Cruise Update 6

  
  TetonAT.com — Authority: 422
  Photo: Scott Fennell.For our last day of skiing in Antarctica, the ship brought us to some mellow terrain around Discovery Bay on Greenwich Island, where the emphasis seemed to be on seeing seals and penguins, rather than skiing. And since it was long night of partying on the ship for many the night before, a [...]
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• Antarctica Cruise - What to Pack, What to See, What to Do

  
  Canal Travels, Trips, and Tours — Authority: 136
  Experienced travel cruisers understand the growing popularity of Antarctica especially after they have been to it. There is nothing like a trip to Antarctica in terms of wildlife variety along with fun adventures and awesome views. This piece gives you a rundown of activities available while on an Antarctica cruise to ...
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• Deep Glider Deployment!

  
  I-COOL — Authority: 141
  Wednesday November 11th marked the first glider deployment for this years Antarctic field season. We couldn’t of asked for better weather, it was a balmy 30 degrees, clear sunny skies and flat calm seas. We journeyed out to Station E and after surveying the water depth in the area, we decided it was a good spot to ...
  8 hours ago

• Shackleton’s Scotch off the rocks

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Fresh from the South Pole, a bottle of Rare Old Scotch by McKinlay & Co, is to be cut from one of two cases buried in Antarctic ice for over a hundred years, a relic of Shackleton’s doomed expedition.Once freed from the ice by A New Zealand expedition at the Pole, the bottle is to be [...]
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• Bobs Adventure has begun

  
  Bailey's Buddy — Authority: 135
  Just to let you know Bob is now on his trip and he has posted from Miami on his way south. You can r ead about it here. Bob mentioned that he will be in the Beagle Channe l soon. He said he does not know why it was named that. It was named for the H. M. S. Beagle which Darwin was on on his trip. Wiki says: ...
  11 hours ago

• The Adventure Begins

  
  Welcome to the Quark Expeditions Community — Authority: 127
  We learned last night from the Customer Service Team in Ushuaia that Kapitan Khlebnikov is delayed. The Weddell Sea has lived up to its reputation as one of the iciest seas on the planet. Antarctic winds, low clouds and the capriciousness of Nature has kept the vessel safely locked in ice. I envy all on board for ...
  13 hours ago

• Drilling through Antarctic ice -- to find whiskey

  
  Asylum.co.uk — Authority: 581
  Filed under: Booze , Weird Before you get too excited, no, researchers havent found underground Antarctic caves filled with a naturally occurring whiskey. But a team of Antarctic adventurers will soon set off on a mission to recover crates of the malt which were abandoned ... Read more   Permalink  |  ...
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• Adventure Travel 101

  
  Travel Blog — Authority: 441
  The growing number of individuals interested in real time participation games has given rise to adventure travel. Someone having this kind of trip allows himself to take on different physical challenges that test his limits while completely enjoying it. Travelers seek out adventure travel because it is not difficult ...
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• Last-Minute Travel Tips

  
  Travel Blog — Authority: 441
  The trick to a great vacation to some distant location is packing what you need and doing it properly. There might not be anywhere to purchase essentials around the area in case you forgot some and this could definitely ruin a scheduled vacation. Your vacation could turn ugly with the occurrence of accidents and this ...
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• Every cloud has a silver lining – Antarctic glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 723
  From a British Antarctic Survey Press Release . Next time some alarmist wails about ice melt in Antarctica, point them to this story that shows nature has self regulating features for our planet. (h/t to Hu McCullough) Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store Issue date: 09 Nov ...
  2 days ago

• Canada & the Environment

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  See related posts under Environment & Energy ; Arctic ; Biofuels ; Oil ; Canada & the Climate Change Conference (Bali) ; Liquid Asset The Canadian dean of the discipline, the University of Alberta’s David Schindler, wrote in 2006 that Alberta, along with Saskatchewan and Manitoba, will soon ...
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• Cruising to Antarctica Expedition – Get Ready for a Grand Time

  
  Travel Blog — Authority: 441
  Cruise travels often make people think about beaches and coconut trees and balmy weather. The north is where the more daring of people travel during the summer months to view other landscapes and watch wild animals. The more daring however might wind up picking altogether different spots. How does a trip to Antarctica ...
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• Patriot Hills Antarctic base opens for 2009 season

  
  Gadling — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Climbing , Skiing , Antarctica , Chile The only privately owned Antarctic base opened for the 2009 season a few days ago, allowing explorers, scientists, mountaineers, and adventure travelers, access to the frozen continent for the first time since January. Commonly known as Patriot Hills, the ...
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• Antarctic iceberg on walkabout toward Australia

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 140
  Trip of iceberg on walkabout from Antarctica towards Australia by  The Press and Journal , Aberdeen, November 13, 2009 A large iceberg was about halfway between Antarctica and Australia, a rare sight in waters so far north, Australian scientists said yesterday. Australian Antarctic Division ...
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• An Antarctica Cruise is Teeming with Activities

  
  Luggage Joint — Authority: 154
  Antarctica is a surprisingly interesting cruise vacation place and this is partly why more and more people look to it for fun travel. There is nothing like a trip to Antarctica in terms of wildlife variety along with fun adventures and awesome views. This article will provide you with some of the activity options ...
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• Overfishing: Plunder in the High Seas

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  In spite of many local and international restrictions, overfishing continues to be a glaring reality, even escalating at an alarming rate. Countries have been breaking their environmental pledges in this regard, creating a huge gap between what countries promise to do to end overfishing and what actually happens in ...
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• Adventure Travel - High-Wire Vacations!

  
  Canal Travels, Trips, and Tours — Authority: 136
  Travelers everywhere seeking to satisfy their craving for interactive trips now have adventure travel to turn to. This is time away from work an individual spends testing his limits and abilities in the physical arena. What makes adventure travel so popular is that its trips lend itself to customization by travelers ...
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