The Great South Land - Antarctica (H136.53)

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We will go by icebreaker to Macquarie Island before heading across the Southern Ocean through the Roaring Forties, Fearful Fifties & Screaming Sixties to McMurdo Station, the furthest south you can travel by sea. We will visit the Scott and Shackleton Huts, Dry Valleys and Ross Ice Shelf. Then travel from South America down the Peninsula, visiting South Georgia, Falklands, Elephant Island and all points south. We will follow the early explorers and the environmental impact of climate change up to the present day.

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