Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic is celebrating the Centennial of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition.
Guests aboard National Geographic Explorer and National Geographic Orion on the 2014-2015 voyages to Antarctica will be led by an expedition team. The season will also be dedicated to Shackleton’s expedition photographer, Frank Hurley.
Guests will have the chance hike the route alongside naturalists and historians, led by a National Geographic photographer and a Lindblad-National Geographic certified photo instructor. Lindblad-National Geographic guests will also have the chance to toast Shackleton, Hurley and their fellow explorers with the same whisky favored on the original voyage. In February, 2007, the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust uncovered two crates of Mackinlay’s Rare Old Highland Malt, remnants of the 25 cases Ernest Shackleton ordered to provision his 1907 Nimrod expedition. Whyte and Mackay have issued a limited release of the whisky, and the ships have been provisioned with the malt.
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Voyages throughout the season will also have multiple Global Perspectives guest speakers who will add insight and personal experience to the expedition community. They include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson, whose latest book is “An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackelton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science;” Jared Diamond, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Kendrick Taylor, chief scientist for a project investigating climate change and the Antarctic ice sheet; Joe McConnell, environmental scientist; Fen Montaigne, journalist and author of “Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica,” and Peter Hillary, of mountaineering royalty, who has summitted the highest mountain on each of the seven continents and established a new overland route to the South Pole.
Journey to Antarctica: The White Continent: 14 days/11 nights aboard National Geographic Explorer. Rates begin at $12,350 per person in a category 1 cabin based on double occupancy. Departures are Nov. 28; Dec. 8, 18, 28, 2014; Jan. 7, 17, 27; Feb. 6, 2015.
Antarctica, South Georgia and The Falklands: 24 days/21 nights aboard National Geographic Explorer and National Geographic Orion. Rates begin at $21,360 per person in a category 1 cabin based on double occupancy. Departures on the National Geographic Explorer: Nov. 8, 2014; Feb. 16, 2015; on the National Geographic Orion Dec. 26, 2014; Jan. 25 & Feb. 14, 2014.
For more information, visit www.expeditions.com.