{"id":15224,"date":"2008-05-21T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/mawsons-descendant-guest-lecturer-on-antarctic-cruise-2\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T23:09:00","slug":"mawsons-descendant-guest-lecturer-on-antarctic-cruise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/05\/mawsons-descendant-guest-lecturer-on-antarctic-cruise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mawson\u2019s descendant guest lecturer on Antarctic cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma McEwin, the great-granddaughter of Sir Douglas Mawson, will be a guest lecturer aboard Aurora Expeditions\u2019 ice-strengthened Marina Svetaeva on a 27-day round cruise from Hobart to Antarctica on December 12.<\/p>\n<p>McEwin, author of \u2018An Antarctic Affair,\u2019 will give passengers an insight into the life and heroic exploits of her famous ancestor as they sail for Mawson\u2019s Huts at Commonwealth Bay, the isolated base camp of the 1911 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.<\/p>\n<p>Fares for this \u2018Iceberg &#038; Emperors\u2019 voyage aboard the 100-passenger Marina Svetaeva, which has a fleet of inflatable zodiacs and two helicopters, cost from US$12,290 per person quad share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma McEwin, the great-granddaughter of Sir Douglas Mawson, will be a guest lecturer aboard Aurora Expeditions\u2019 ice-strengthened Marina Svetaeva on a 27-day round cruise from Hobart to Antarctica on December 12. McEwin, author of \u2018An Antarctic Affair,\u2019 will give passengers an insight into the life and heroic exploits of her famous ancestor as they sail [&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":[],"class_list":["post-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224","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=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}