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After 100 Years, The Chance to Relive Scott’s Last Expedition
Aurora Expeditions are proud to partner with London’s Natural History Museum on their new exhibit Scott’s Last Expedition. Scott’s Last Expedition will look at this landmark journey into the unknown from different angles including everyday life in the base-camp hut, examining the different tales of human endurance and revealing the remarkable scientific achievements of the […]
Aurora Expeditions celebrates Mawson’s historic landing at Commonwealth Bay
Expedition cruise company, Aurora Expeditions, continues to celebrate the centenary of Heroic Antarctica explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson, and the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, with their second commemorative expedition on board the Akademik Shokalskiy attempting to reach Commonwealth Bay to celebrate Mawson’s arrival at ‘the home of the blizzard’ 100 years ago. Mawson landed in Antarctica […]
Aurora Expeditions celebrates Mawson’s historic landing at Commonwealth Bay
Expedition cruise company, Aurora Expeditions, continues to celebrate the centenary of Heroic Antarctica explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson, and the 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, with their second commemorative expedition on board the Akademik Shokalskiy attempting to reach Commonwealth Bay to celebrate Mawson’s arrival at ‘the home of the blizzard’ 100 years ago. Mawson landed in Antarctica […]
Aurora Pays Tribute
Over 1000 lives were lost when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed in July 1942 In support of our 2012 Papua New Guinea voyage Lost in Paradise – Our Fallen Heroes, Aurora Expeditions has collaborated with the Montevideo Maru Society. The Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Society was established to ensure national recognition and commemoration of the […]
Aurora Pays Tribute
Over 1000 lives were lost when the Montevideo Maru was torpedoed in July 1942 In support of our 2012 Papua New Guinea voyage Lost in Paradise – Our Fallen Heroes, Aurora Expeditions has collaborated with the Montevideo Maru Society. The Rabaul and Montevideo Maru Society was established to ensure national recognition and commemoration of the […]
Aurora Antarctica 2012/13 brochure out now
Antarctica 2012/2013 10% early bird discount, book today!* Aurora Expeditions are delighted to release their 2012/2013 Antarctica brochure.With increased capacity, this season is set to be our biggest and best yet! NEW FOR 2012/2013 * Choice of two ships – Polar Pioneer & Akademik Shokalskiy […]
Aurora Antarctica 2012/13 brochure out now
Antarctica 2012/2013 10% early bird discount, book today!* Aurora Expeditions are delighted to release their 2012/2013 Antarctica brochure.With increased capacity, this season is set to be our biggest and best yet! NEW FOR 2012/2013 * Choice of two ships – Polar Pioneer & Akademik Shokalskiy […]
Cold war sites on Arctic cruise
Aurora Expeditions members at Bukhta Legzdina in the Russian Arctic. Picture: Dylan Coker A POLAR bear clambering a cliff face hunting eggs; 24-hour daylight; glaciers mirrored in seas next to fields of flowers … weird and wonderful things happen in the Arctic Circle. In these cold reaches Novaya Zemlya is a little-known Russian outcrop of […]
Cold war sites on Arctic cruise
Aurora Expeditions members at Bukhta Legzdina in the Russian Arctic. Picture: Dylan Coker A POLAR bear clambering a cliff face hunting eggs; 24-hour daylight; glaciers mirrored in seas next to fields of flowers … weird and wonderful things happen in the Arctic Circle. In these cold reaches Novaya Zemlya is a little-known Russian outcrop of […]
Aurora Expeditions’ Makes History on Russia’s North East Passage
Australian expedition-cruise company, Aurora Expeditions, has today become one the first companies to ever complete Russia’s North East Passage in an ice-strengthened passenger vessel. On board Russian vessel, Akademik Shokalskiy, the 50 passengers, 10 staff and 23 crew departed Murmansk on 10 August, taking 26 days to traverse Siberia’s vast north coast to Anadyr, crossing nine […]
