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Antarctica, Falklands & South Georgia Islands 2010-2011

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Antarctica, Falklands & South Georgia Islands 2010-2011
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Savings for the 2010-2011 Season

Aboard M/S Expedition: 35% off listed prices if booked by July 31!

Aboard Plancius PLA21 & 22: Nov. 4 - 22, 2010 & Nov. 22-Dec. 10, 2010 

25% off Listed Price

All other voyages aboard Plancius, now 15% off!

Check our Rates page for more information!
Download our Antarctica Compendium for the 2010-11 season. Click on image to download.
For the 2010-2011 season: Join us aboard the comfortable research vessels M/S Expedition (capacity of 120) and M/V Plancius (capacity of 112 passengers) and explore the best Antarctic itinerary available: the Falkland and South Georgia Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.

For an in-depth experience of one of our recent Antarctic voyages, visit our blog page and read Randy & Susie Green's account of our Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica cruise aboard the Clelia II!  

Long before the Russian explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1820 and became the first person to sight Antarctica, scholars had been trying to prove the existence of a southern continent. The ancient Greeks had developed a theory of a frigid northern landmass (Arktos) and hypothesized that this region must be counterbalanced by a frigid southern continent (Antarktos). The imaginary southern polar region was soon labelled ‘Terra Incognita’ and this conception lead to a continuous eagerness to discover the unknown continent.

When, eventually, mankind had survived the stormy southern seas and found a way through the supposed impenetrable pack-ice, human eyes were finally able to register what the Greek master Aristotle had suspected more than twenty centuries before.

A visit to Antarctica unites one with the magical elements of polar wilderness -- a place that truly dwells apart from our human-created world. And departing Antarctica leaves us temporarily confused, as it is hard to imagine that we have truly witnessed the profusion of life, colors and crystalline purity of this fascinating region.

Antarctica evokes a longing to return, time after time, and the realization that not much has really changed since scholars started to philosophize and the early adventurers made the first tentative explorations of this continent.

Join us this season and follow the path of history’s polar explorers!

 

 

To book this cruise or talk to one of our cruise consultants please call
1-800-808-4IWA (4492) or (206) 463-1943

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