Entries Tagged "antarctica travel"

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Antarctica is an ideal destination for the most adventurous and curious traveller. Those who venture there follow in the past of the great explorers of the past, and the experience that awaits remains undiminished today.

The continent abounds with exotic wildlife, much of it found nowhere else on earth. Birds, including large penguin rookeries, rub shoulders with seal colonies, while orcas and whales can sometimes be seen plying the ivy waters offshore.  Famous for it's enormous icebergs, towering glaciers and shimmering austral summer light, Antarctica bestows on the travellers some of the most awe inspiring and dramatic landscapes the planet has to offer.  Depending on your chosen itinerary, you visit a combination of the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands, known for their wealth of penguin, seal and whale species.  South Georgia Island, made famous by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, and a breeding ground for enormous albatross and king penguin, and the Falkland Islands with their pictureqsue scenery, quaint capital and prolific birdlife and mammals.

Sunday, August 02, 2009

'Tis the season we receive many requests for trips to Antartica. Antartica is a very unique destination, and not for the client expecting a luxury cruise. We do have some luxury ships touching on the Antartic Peninsula, but this is not the Polar experience most adventuresome travelers are looking for.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Here are some facts about Antarctica:

Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, is asymmetrically centered on the South Pole and almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle. Antarctica consists of two major regions: W Antarctica, a mountainous archipelago that includes the Antarctic Peninsula, and E Antarctica geologically a continental shield. They are joined into a single continental mass by an ice sheet thousands of feet thick. At the seaward margins of the ice sheet masses of ice break off and float away as icebergs, leaving ice cliffs. 

Less than 5% of Antarctica is free of ice; these areas include mountain peaks, arid dry valleys, small coastal areas, and islands. There is no native human population in Antarctica, nor are there any large land animals. Few species are adapted to the Antarctic environment, as it is very cold, very dry and very wind. Certain species of penguins, whales, seals, sea lions, walruses, krill and birds are found in Antarctica.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Antarctica is currently the fastest warming area on the planet, with temperatures & related ice-melt increasing at an even faster rate than had been predicted. The effects of global warming will have an impact on marine, animal & human life around the planet.

Join a mission with luxury tour operator, Abercrombie and Kent aboard MV 'Minerva' with award-winning scientist Dr. James McClintock to an Antarctic research station, where they present equipment critical to the monitoring of Antarctic climate change. Along the way, travelers journey in Zodiacs and on land to explore the region's coastline and wildlife.

Book now, and you also save $1,000 per person on this voyage, as well as other 2009-10 Antarctica trips.