Jan 5th, 2013 at 9:00AM: Lindblad Expeditions is kicking off 2013 with an excellent deal for travelers planning a visit to Antarctica and the surrounding region later this year. The adventure travel company, which specializes in adventure cruises to some of the most spectacular destinations on the planet, is offering free airfare for anyone who signs up for their November cruise to the frozen continent. That 24-day trip ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Lindblad Expeditions Offers Free Airfare On Antarctic And Falklands Itinerary
Jan 5th, 2013 at 9:00AM: Lindblad Expeditions is kicking off 2013 with an excellent deal for travelers planning a visit to Antarctica and the surrounding region later this year. The adventure travel company, which specializes in adventure cruises to some of the most spectacular destinations on the planet, is offering free airfare for anyone who signs up for their November cruise to the frozen continent. That 24-day trip ...Intrepid Travel Offers Epic Journey In Footsteps Of Ernest Shackleton
Sep 30th, 2012 at 3:00PM: The term "once in a lifetime adventure" is tossed around a bit too lightly in the travel industry these days and seldom is it used accurately. But when Intrepid Travel uses the term to describe their latest offering, it just might be an understatement. Their recently announced Shackleton Epic truly is a journey like no other, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest explorers of the 20th ...Video of the Day: Antarctic baby seals
Mar 22nd, 2012 at 5:30PM:
Antarctica has been the subject of several Photo and Video of the Day posts in the last few months, but it's hard to resist adorable penguins and jaw-dropping icebergs. So sharing a video of baby fur seals frolicking in the sub-Antarctic was a no-brainer. National Geographic nomad and past Gadling contributor Andrew Evans is currently crossing oceans on a Cape (Horn) to Cape (Good Hope) trip and ...
Bowermaster's Antarctica -- Grytviken, South Georgia
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Mar 10th, 2009 at 11:00AM: In the whaling museum here the most fascinating thing to me – after the touch-me-feel-me penguin skin – are the trophies and sports uniforms worn by the different South Georgia whaling station teams which competed against each other in rugby, track and field, ski jumping and more during the heyday of whale killing here. Grytviken was South Georgia's first whaling station/factory, set ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- In the Footsteps of Shackleton
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Mar 2nd, 2009 at 11:00AM: Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Ernest Shackleton had an intimate relationship with South Georgia. He stopped here for a month in 1914 before sailing the "Endurance" to its crushing fate in Antarctica; a year and a half later with five others he sailed the gerry-rigged lifeboat "James Caird" 800 miles across the Scotia Sea to King Haarkon Bay, arriving on May 9, 1916; and in 1922 he returned, died and ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- St Andrews Bay, South Georgia
Feb 23rd, 2009 at 11:00AM: I miswrote. The other day I suggested that South Georgia was like some kind of Magic Kingdom envisioned by Disney. Today I'm revising that; it's more like something old Walt might have created after a visit while ingesting heavily of magic mushrooms. Late this afternoon I found myself crossing a wide, six-inch deep pond on St. Andrews ringed by a portion of the 300,000 King penguin colony that ...Bowermaster's Antarctica -- Cooper Bay, South Georgia Island
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Feb 19th, 2009 at 11:00AM: I saw South Georgia Island for the first time from about ten miles out, on a gusty, windy, blue-sky morning. Though we'd just sailed eight hundred miles east and north from the tip of Antarctica, giant tabular icebergs greeted us, nearly blocking the entryway to Cooper Bay. These big icebergs had broken off the Larsen Ice Shelf since 2002 and slowly made their way here, where they now sit ...
