{"id":13699,"date":"2011-11-26T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/tourists-iceberg-dilemma-2\/"},"modified":"2011-11-26T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T08:48:00","slug":"tourists-iceberg-dilemma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/11\/tourists-iceberg-dilemma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists&#8217; iceberg dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/images\/uploadedfiles\/editorial\/pictures\/2011\/11\/25\/iceberg1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/images\/uploadedfiles\/editorial\/pictures\/2011\/11\/25\/iceberg1.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>An iceberg the size of the ACT is<br \/>blocking access to Mawson&#8217;s Hut.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>by Craig Hoggett | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Mercury <\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOURISTS forking out top dollar to visit Mawson&#8217;s Hut for centenary celebrations this summer are likely to face disappointment as the &#8220;Antarctic factor&#8221; heaves an enormous icy obstacle in ships&#8217; paths.<\/p>\n<p>Expedition cruise ship MV Orion is due to start its 19-night Southern Ocean voyage on Thursday, with prices for the 100 passengers starting at $19,365 a person.<\/p>\n<p>Orion expedition leader Don McIntyre said the Antarctic always had challenges but an iceberg the size of the ACT blocking access was &#8220;unique&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whilst it&#8217;s not looking good, no one will know until we get there,&#8221; Mr McIntyre said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We always maintain a simple philosophy we work with the Antarctic factor. You cannot dictate terms with Antarctica, it lets you in at its pleasure you have to work with it, you can&#8217;t fight it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 2500 sq km tabular iceberg was part of a much larger ice mass that broke free from the Ross Ice Shelf in 1987 but subsequently broke up as it drifted westwards.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the &#8220;B9B&#8221; iceberg have grounded on the approach to the Mawson&#8217;s Hut site at Commonwealth Bay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/article\/2011\/11\/26\/279771_tasmania-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Story <\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An iceberg the size of the ACT isblocking access to Mawson&#8217;s Hut. by Craig Hoggett | The Mercury TOURISTS forking out top dollar to visit Mawson&#8217;s Hut for centenary celebrations this summer are likely to face disappointment as the &#8220;Antarctic factor&#8221; heaves an enormous icy obstacle in ships&#8217; paths. Expedition cruise ship MV Orion is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-orion-expedition-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}