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  2. Oceanwide Expeditions - Wikipedia

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    Oceanwide Expeditions is a Dutch company specializing in expedition-style voyages to Antarctica and the Arctic.Deploying its own fleet of ice-strengthened vessels, Oceanwide emphasizes small-scale, flexible tours that provide passengers close contact with polar wildlife, landscapes, and historical sites.

  3. South Pole Traverse - Wikipedia

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    The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse (SPoT), [2] is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice [3] in Antarctica that links McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, both operated by the National Science Foundation of the United States. [4]

  4. Antarctic gateway cities - Wikipedia

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    Cape Town is the largest of the gateway cities and the farthest from Antarctica. In addition to South Africa's own national Antarctic program, the programs of Russia, Germany, Belgium, Norway, and Japan also reach Antarctica via Cape Town. [1] As of 2021, tourism company White Desert has offered direct commercial flights from Cape Town to ...

  5. Nathaniel B. Palmer (icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    The vessel is named after merchant mariner and ship builder Nathaniel Brown Palmer, credited by some historians as the first American to see Antarctica. [ 2 ] In February 2020, researchers aboard the vessel with the international Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research (THOR) project discovered Sif Island , located in Pine Island Bay of the Amundsen ...

  6. White Desert (company) - Wikipedia

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    White Desert Ltd. is a British tour operator conducting expeditions to Antarctica. As of 2021, it is the only company to offer a commercial private jet service to the continent. [2] [3] Its Whichaway Camp is described by multiple publications as Antarctica's first and only hotel. [4] [5] [6]

  7. Drake Passage - Wikipedia

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    In 1525, Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces discovered the Drake Passage while sailing south from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan. [2] Because of this, the Drake Passage is referred to as the "Mar de Hoces (Sea of Hoces)" in Spanish maps and sources, while almost always in the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries it is mostly known as “Pasaje de Drake” (in Argentina, mainly), or ...

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