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Mutiny, Misery and Majesty – Welcome to Norfolk Island
Named after a dead duchess by a slain sea captain and populated by mutineers, sadists and convicts, dainty little Norfolk Island did not get off to a flying start. Humiliation and servitudein the Royal Navy or this? Fletcher Christian’s manydescendants now populate Norfolk Island While the Christians, Quintals, Evans, Adams and Burkitts still hold positions […]
Mutiny, Misery and Majesty – Welcome to Norfolk Island
Named after a dead duchess by a slain sea captain and populated by mutineers, sadists and convicts, dainty little Norfolk Island did not get off to a flying start. Humiliation and servitudein the Royal Navy or this? Fletcher Christian’s manydescendants now populate Norfolk Island While the Christians, Quintals, Evans, Adams and Burkitts still hold positions […]
Cruise Diary: True North in the Kimberley
Few places in the world cause Australian eyes to light up brighter than the Kimberley, and the True North, crowned by its own helicopter, is ultimate way to experience it. This is a very abbreviated account of what to expect on a one-week adventure. Day 1: From Broome we’re transferred by light aircraft to the […]
Cruise Diary: True North in the Kimberley
Few places in the world cause Australian eyes to light up brighter than the Kimberley, and the True North, crowned by its own helicopter, is ultimate way to experience it. This is a very abbreviated account of what to expect on a one-week adventure. Day 1: From Broome we’re transferred by light aircraft to the […]
Cruise Weekly: Enquiring Minds go Adventure Cruising
Sir George Hubert Wilkins in his later years It’s not uncommon for cruise ships of all shapes and sizes to carry with them lecturers and demonstrators on all manner of subjects from history, geography, anthropology, winemaking, yoga and oil painting to crochet. Adventure and expedition cruise vessels traditionally take the learning and enrichment angle very […]
Cruise Weekly: Enquiring Minds go Adventure Cruising
Sir George Hubert Wilkins in his later years It’s not uncommon for cruise ships of all shapes and sizes to carry with them lecturers and demonstrators on all manner of subjects from history, geography, anthropology, winemaking, yoga and oil painting to crochet. Adventure and expedition cruise vessels traditionally take the learning and enrichment angle very […]
Orion III is very likely for 2013
by Louise Goldsbury, Editor, Cruise Weekly Orion Expedition Cruises is yet to debut Orion II in Asia, but plans are already underway for a third ship. Australia’s Orion Expeditions has had such success with the impending launch of its second ship that a third vessel is set to be added within the next three years. […]
Orion III is very likely for 2013
by Louise Goldsbury, Editor, Cruise Weekly Orion Expedition Cruises is yet to debut Orion II in Asia, but plans are already underway for a third ship. Australia’s Orion Expeditions has had such success with the impending launch of its second ship that a third vessel is set to be added within the next three years. […]
The North Pole Debate Still Rages
In September 1909, the American adventurer Frederick A Cook announced that he and two Eskimo companions had just returned from the North Pole after a journey of nearly two years. His bold claims were immediately met with derision by another US veteran of the ice, Robert E Peary. He claimed his own expedition was the […]
Is Expedition Cruising the Purest Ecotourism?
Out in the wide world of commercial travel, cruising is enjoying a revival. Buoyed by the new wave of gigantic, luxurious vessels carrying up to 5000 passengers for as little a two hundred dollars per day, the allure is understandable. In Australia, cruise passenger numbers have tripled in less than ten years. In 2009, around […]
