Nei Maldaner will navigate for one month crossing the Antarctic continent, proceeding of Ushuaia in Argentina to Christchurch in New Zealand in this final of 2006. Check the programming.

Just in our break ice polar you can circumnavigate Antarctica closely, sailing 5.000 miles of South America, crossing the Antarctic Polar Circle, in the middle of the way to the white continent New Zealand. Tracing the last exploiters' route, you will visit historical stations of researches and find the free wild life, penguins, seals, whales, a journey accomplished only one time in your life through healthier of the planet scenery.

Days 1 and 2: Ushuaia, Earth of the Fire, Argentina: Arrival in one of the most distant city to the south of the world and transfer for a local hotel. Next morning to enjoy with the trip companions a tour guided by the National Park of the Fire's Earth, attending for Magellanic Woodpeckers, Black Ibis and Andean Condors. On board on the Kapitan Khlebnikov in the end of the afternoon to navigate in direction to the east along the Beagle Channel.

Days 3, 4 and 5: Drake Passage and South of the Shetland Islands: Accompanied for a magnificent Wandering Albatross, you cross Drake Passage and crosses Antarctic Convergence, a biological barrier where the cold polar waters are submerged to lukewarm waters of the zones of temperatures. Reaching south Island Shetland, to explore areas of penguins and to seek marine lions with its kids in the sea of ice. Antarctica just has two types of plants flourishing during the short summer of the south.

Day 6: Reaching the peninsula Antarctica: We reached the peninsula Antarctica and point of the south, navigating the dramatic Neumayer Channel in direction of Port Lockroy and its colonies of penguins as well as the rough blue eyes. You then will go by the way with the purest water in the world - Lemaire Channel, a strait mistake geologic between the mountains covered with snow of the Island of Booth and the peninsula. We also hoped to pay a visit in the Vernadsky Estation, where British scientists detected the hole in the layer of Ozone in 1983.

Days 7, 8, 9 and 10: Marguerite Bay and Peter I Island: Crossing the Antarctic circle in Crystal Sound, you have great opportunities to see whales Minke and Antarctic petrels. With the climatic conditions to our favor and permission, we will carry ourselves them in the Rothera Station, a British base in Marguerite Bay. We headed for Bellingshausen Sea, waiting the earth of one of the most isolated islands of the world, Peter I Island, a cold destiny for the procreation of penguins Chinstrap, marine birds and Fulmars of the south.

Days 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15: Amundsen Sea and Phantom Coast: Searching per days full of adventures, arranged the suitcases for Amundsen Sea. Our route along Getz Ice Shelf and great and unexplored Phantom Coast, dominated by 10,000 feet Mt. Siple and frequently with a rosy light of the low sun of the late afternoon. As several polar expeditions, our itinerary daily varied with the local conditions, but if the progress and climate allow, we will tan ourselves the view of the helicopter of active Kapitan Khlebnikov of the road guided by the south, as well as the possibility to disembark in the stones of the Island of Shephard.

Day 16: Ross Hoists Shelf: Exciting constructions in the access for immense Ross Hoist Shelf. We hoped to do the helicopter to disembark of Kapitan Khlebnikov while it navigates among the long miles of icebergs that are broken of that great cold barrier. Maintain an eye out to the Pingüin Imperator, that can sometimes appear close to in Ross Sea that station. Continuing for west, you can attend the scenery in the distance, in the day as we cross ourselves International Dates Line.

Days 17, 18 and 19: Ross Island and McMurdo Sound: In the south yet, we were reached Ross Island, it leaves of the Montanha Transantartica it Screaks that divides the continent geographically in east and west. The island is a house for the base of American north research, McMurdo Station. Close it is Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Hut (1901-04), maintained through primitive way. After visiting, Scott Base, the station of New Zealand, our next objective is Ernest Shackleton and the hut of it Castrates Royds, built during its polar Nimrod among 1907-09 and now it is used by thousands of Adélie Penguins in the area up to the south of penguins. Close to Cape Evans you can visit another of the original huts Scott, preserved by the inheritance of faith of New Zealand. And we planned flights of helicopters, besides visiting rare areas of Antarctica: spectacular Dry Valleys, where virtually precipitations didn't drop for millions of years and the soil is liquids that grows below of the stones. Disembarking in the desert, you find uncommon formations formed by the winds and glacial mountains are colored for sand and stones that blow in the ice.

Days 20, 21 and 22: Ross Sea and Castrate Adare: We followed ourselves the expedition of discovery of Scott to New Earth Bay, located among Cape Washington and Drygalski Ice Tongue, the glacial extension that dramatically shortened for a collision with an immense iceberg B-15A in April of 2005. Dense packages of ice frequently challenge ships close to Cape Hallett, where scientists of US and New Zealand installing a base for International Geophysical Year (1957-58). The 12,000 ft Admiralty Screaks it is a stunned shortcut for the arrival in Cape Adare, home for thousands of couples of penguins Adélie Pingüins, it is the largest colony of the world. Besides plaza, the open beach is the factory of wood where the Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink was the first to pass the winter in the Antarctic continent in 1899.

Days 23, 24, 25 and 26: Ocean of the south and Campbell Island: As we continued in direction to the north, our focus is the wild life of the Antarctica's islands of New Zealand. We navigated for Perseverance Harbor, worn away by the base of a volcano and surrounded of stones of 8 to 11 million of years of age. During our landing in the meteorological station, you can see Royal Albatross of the summit.

Days 27, 28 and 29: Enderby Island for Lyttelton, New Zealand: In your walks in Enderby Island you should find them threatened marine lions of New Zealand, illusory penguins of yellow eye, nests in Royal Albatross and, in the island has different forests, red Parakeets. During our last day in the sea, our present specialist will revise some points of our wild life and your adventures found at the beach. In the last morning, we left in Kapitan Khlebnikov and we transferred ourselves to Christchurch Airport and we flew to Auckland and later home.

Note: that itinerary is just a guide, our exact route and you program it varies in agreement with the conditions of the ice and of the climate - and of the wild life that we found. Flexibility is the key for the success of the expedition. You visit the stations of researches they depend on the final permission.

More information:

Zelfa Silva
Tel: + 54.11.4806.6326
Fax: +54.11.4804.9474
Email: zelfa@antarcticacruises.com.ar
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Translation: Débora A. da Silva