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Aurora Expeditions Offer Complimentary Inclusions to Celebrate New Antarctic Gateway
#expeditioncruising To celebrate their inaugural Antarctic season using the Chilean gateway of Puerto Williams, Aurora Expeditions are offering guests aboard their small ship expeditions all manner of complimentary inclusions. Aurora passengers currently enjoy all shore excursions, landing fees, gumboot hire and an educational program presented by expert guides as part of the voyage price; however […]
SMH: Fore-warmed is fore-armed
#expeditioncruising Be toasty: The Antarctic landscape holds fascinating fun. Ten things y-you should kn-n-now b-b-efore t-t-taking a c-c-cold-c-c-climate c-c-cruise, writes Lynne Whiley. I’ve danced across ice and snow, stones and bits of bone in the Antarctic, singing One Republic’s Counting Stars out loud. It’s a big continent and I didn’t care if anyone saw or […]
Aurora Expeditions’ New Kimberley Wilderness Walk to Find Lost Outback Road
#expeditioncruising Expedition cruise company, Aurora Expeditions, is inviting guests to take part in a special mission in the Kimberley to uncover a lost historical track once used by early missionaries nearly 100 hundred years ago. The search will take part on a dedicated ‘Wilderness Walk’ which is an exclusive highlight on the company’s 2014 Kimberley […]
Polar Pioneer distress call part of IAATO exercise
file image of Aurora Expeditions’ Polar Pioneer (R Eime) The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) and two IAATO Member Operators, Aurora Expeditions and Oceanwide Expeditions, took part in a live search and rescue communications exercise in collaboration with the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) Ushuaia, Argentina. The intent of the training exercise was […]
Mawsons Huts: Shiver me Timbers
Extract from Aurora Expeditions The Expeditioner A meager wooden hut erected on a prime corner of Hobart’s waterfront could easily be mistaken for a dodgy kit home, yet its baltic pine walls carry a weight of Australian Antarctic history. The hut, painstakingly recreated, is a full-scale replica of Douglas Mawson’s winter quarters at Cape Denison, […]
Aurora Expeditions Launches Brand New Destinations In 2014
Australian adventure company, Aurora Expeditions, has released its 2014/2015 brochure – Expeditions – featuring an array of brand new destinations including Ecuador, The Galapagos Islands, Alaska, Arnhem Land, Cape York, Bhutan and Patagonia. With the addition of a trekking program to their ship-based expeditions, the new brochure spans 12 exciting destinations across 19 innovative itineraries. […]
Aurora Expeditions Launches Brand New Destinations In 2014
Australian adventure company, Aurora Expeditions, has released its 2014/2015 brochure – Expeditions – featuring an array of brand new destinations including Ecuador, The Galapagos Islands, Alaska, Arnhem Land, Cape York, Bhutan and Patagonia. With the addition of a trekking program to their ship-based expeditions, the new brochure spans 12 exciting destinations across 19 innovative itineraries. […]
