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PROGRAM MONDAY, 28.11.2016 – EMBARKATION USHUAIA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS

TEA,COFFEE & COOKIES 16:00 – 17:30 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 BUFFET DINNER 18:00 – 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

15:00 Check-In welcome you on board and a stamp, please see Check in is on deck 3 and 4. present his officers and the Reception, Deck 4. Suites can check in on deck 7. Expedition team. At the same time we'll give some Times can change. Meal times 15:00-17:30 Medical Forms information regarding our will change during the course Please deliver your medical voyage. In the Panorama of the voyage according to our forms to the Doctor in the Lounge, deck 7. landings. Activities and landing lobby on deck 4. times may change due to the Daily Programmes will be weather or ice condition we 16:00-17:30 Learn more about delivered to your cabin each encounter on our expedition. our voyage and meet some of evening. the expedition team members Most of the time we will use in the Observation Lounge on Announcements can be heard our Polar Cirkle boats for deck 7. in English and German in your landings. For organizational cabin by choosing channel 1 purposes we are going to Ca 17:30 Mandatory Safety on your television. separate you into groups of Drill Please follow the approximately 30- 32 instructions over the PA Expedition Jackets will be passengers. On deck 4 by the system. The drill will end available for collection conference rooms, you find an outside, please bring a warm tomorrow and Rubber Boots overview of the groups. Have jacket. the day after tomorrow. a look which group you are in.

18:00 MS FRAM Departs from We may have the opportunity We would like to inform you Ushuaia. to stamp your passport at an that all stated times and Antarctic base during our activities are changeable due 21:30 Our Captain Rune voyage. If you would NOT like to weather conditions, or other Andreassen would like to circumstances out of our

control. We kindly remind you Be aware the doors toward the to take care walking around on outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 the ship while at sea. can be potentially dangerous Especially venturing out on in windy conditions. While deck, mind the signs for walking inside, hold on to warning of wet and slippery. railings but not in door frames.

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PROGRAM TUESDAY, 29.11.2016 – AT SEA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4 DINNER MENU 20:00 2nd seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

08:00 – 10:15 You are 14:30 Polhøgda / German 16:45 Polhøgda/Deutsch welcome to pick up your Willkommen in Afrika: Die Information über unsere Expedition jacket on deck 2. Geologie der Falkland-Inseln Anlandungen auf den Falkland von Steffen Biersack Inseln.

09:30 Optional Excursions in 14:30 / English 18:00 Bookingdeadline for . A short Falklands history and excursions in Stanley presentation about the optional goverment by Adrian Rubio excursions available in the 18:00 & 20:00 Framheim Falkland Islands. From 15:30 and onwards: /English Information about all our "Rubber boot -Arctic Muck landings at the Falkland Islands 09:30 Informationen über Boot" on deck 2 and 3. You Ausflüge in den Falklands can try on a pair, and we show 18:00-22:00 Vacuuming for you down to the boot room backpacks and other things Eine kurze Präsentation über where you can set them on the you will bring ashore in the die optionalen Exkursionen auf rack sorted by cabin numbers Falkland Islands taken from den Falklandinseln. for the duration of the voyage. your home continent. You are If you brought your private able to use the vacuum 11:00 Framheim / English rubber boots -please come system on deck 3 and 5- crew Welcome to Africa: The down to deck 2 and have them is available to assist you. Geology of the Falkland placed on the rack on deck 2. Islands by Steffen Biersack We will call you by your Polar 22:00 Panorama Lounge, deck Circle Boat Group. The group 7. We invite you to our fashion 11:00 Polhøgda / German lists are to be found on the info show, where some of the Falklands Geschichte und board deck 4. officers and the expedition Regierung von Adrian Rubio team will show a selection of the clothing we have in the onboard shop.

Fuego, the Falklands Desire the Right, is a clever Bridge visit; If you wish to visit (Malvinas) archipelago is play on the ship’s name. the bridge, please sign up at better described, geologically the Expedition Desk. -Sign up anyway, as a part of Africa. We would like to inform you list are divided in languages. The islands separated from that all stated times and Timings for bridge visits will be Africa during the breakup of activities are changeable due given in the daily program. the super-continent Gondwana to weather conditions, or other millions of years ago and have circumstances out of our If you wish to have dinner with been moving steadily away at control. We kindly remind you some members of the expedition about the speed your to take care walking around on team one evening during the fingernails grow. There is the ship while at sea. expedition, please sign up at evidence to suggest that the Especially venturing out on the Expedition Desk. An Falklands, consisting of two deck, mind the signs for invitation with date and time large and around 700 small warning of wet and slippery. will be sent to your cabin the islands, were initially visited by Be aware the doors toward the day before. If we cannot Yahgans (Yàmana) or other outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 accommodate all requests we peoples of coastal Patagonia. can be potentially dangerous will do a drawing of names. The first recorded sighting by in windy conditions. While Europeans was in 1592 by walking inside, hold on to Lying just 500 kilometres (310 Englishman John Davis sailing railings but not in door frames miles) east of Tierra del in Desire. The islands’ motto,

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PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 30.11.2016 – WEST POINT & CARCASS ISLAND

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER BUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Morning approx. 08:00: FRAM Afternoon FRAM arrives journey. The couple now living arrives at West Point Island. Carcass in the Falkland on the Island sometimes offers Islands. a ten minute, bumpy Land We hope to do a landing here We hope to do a landing here Rover ride instead. Devil`s at West Point today. Weather at Carcass Island today. Nose overlooks the sea permitting; we will begin our Weather permitting, we will surrounded by cliffs and is begin our landing by calling home to several thousand landing by calling group no 1. group no 2. All groups are majestic black browed All groups are called one after called one after the other. albatross and several hundred the other. Please do not Please do not approach deck rough and tumble rockhopper approach deck 2 until your 2 until your group is called, to penguins. As visitors return group is called, to avoid long avoid long line-ups. Smoking from the colony they are line-ups. . This can be a wet is not allowed on the island! invited into the home for a cup of tea or coffee and cakes. landing, rubberboots or high From 14:00 Film The very first cruise vessel to waterproof goretex shoes are Framheim/English come to the Falklands stopped recommended. Smoking is Grandma The oldest here in 1968 and the Napiers not allowed on the island! albatross, 55 min.The film will naturally invited everyone in be shown on repeat until 17:30 for tea. 12:00-14:30 Vacuuming for backpacks and other things West Point has been in the Carcass Island lies to the you will bring ashore in the Napier`s family since its first North West of the Falkland Falkland Islands taken from settlement in 1879. Allan and Islands archipelago and takes your home continent. You are Suzan is now taking care of its name from the HMS able to use the vacuum the place for the Napier`s Carcass which visited in the system on deck 3 and 5- crew From here, the hike to Devil`s late 18th century. At present is available to assist you. Nose is nearly 2.5km there is only two all year (1.5miles) but seems much residents and a few more in shorter somehow on the return the summer, it is the present

owners Rob and Lorraine up for income as well. Unlike number of shore birds are to McGill who have lived on the much of the Falkland Islands be seen. Flightless steamer island for about 30 years. Carcass Island is water-rich ducks, Magellanic Penguins, They continue the and has several water Gentoo Penguins, Cobb’s conservationist traditions of resources. A generator gives wren, black throated finch and the previous owners planting electricity and the traditional many other species. When and restoring the tussac grass fuel, peat, was replaced you reach the settlement of for use as controlled winter recently by the more The McGills they offer coffee, animal grazing areas. There is convenient oil and gas which tea and cakes. about 900 sheep on the island, is delivered by local vessel. At and in addition tourism makes all sites in Carcass a prolific

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PROGRAM THURSDAY, 01.12.2016 – STANLEY

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4 DINNER MENU 20:00 2ND seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Special warning: The Please note that it is not Optional excursion: Scenic Air Argentine forces in 1982 left allowed to take out food from Tour (approx 1.5h) behind between 25.000- the vessel to Stanley. Starts from the ships pier Baggage inspection by the Do not take too much gear 30.000 unmapped plastic land port authorities might take Starts from the ships pier. mines indiscernible to metal place on the pier. Please check the info board detectors. There are 135 for which group you are in. mined areas in the Falklands, Stanley Highlights Tour: 09:30 Group D most near Stanley and all (approx. 2h) 10:30 Group E clearly fenced and marked. Do Starts from the ships pier, not attempt to enter any ends at the museum. You can Bird Watching in the Falkland Islands (approx 3h) minefields or remove minefield take the shuttle bus back to the ship. Comfortable shoes Starts from the ships pier. signs are recommended. It is still Please wear good hiking possible to sign up for this boots. 08:00 FRAM arrives Stanley excursion. 09:00 Group F We will be alongside outside 09:15 Group A of Stanley City Centre. Optional excursion The A free shuttle has been Optional excursion: Falkland Lagoon Bluff Cove: (approx. arranged. Please show the Nature Walk (approx 3h) 3h) driver your cruise card. Starts from the ships pier. Starts from the ships pier . MS Fram- Jetty Visitor center: Please check the info board Comfortable shoes are See the reversed side for for which group you are in. recommended. Please check schedule Jetty Visitor center- Please wear good hiking the info board for which group MS Fram: See the reversed boots. you are in. side for schedule 09:00 Group B 08:30 Group G 09:30 Group C 09:30 Group H

15:45 All aboard!

16:00 MS Fram departs from as a provisioning and repair have to leave Stanley to Port Stanley. stop for ships traveling around experience the wildlife of the Cape Horn, Stanley achieved Falklands. All kind of fauna 16:45 Framheim (English): a notorious reputation as a can be found around town Falkland islands - outpost and haven for vagabond seamen from sea lions and Peale’s and and grizzled whalers. After the Commerson’s dolphins in the bone of contention by Regina opening of the Panama Canal harbour to steamer ducks or Gehmlich in 1914 and the switch from upland geese holding up traffic sail to steam, Stanley became (two or three cars on the same Stanley: Chosen as the new increasingly dependent on the street would be considered seat of government and first wool trade. Its notorious traffic) while turkey vultures settled in the early 1840’s, reputation long gone, the and Dominican gulls soar Stanley was picked for its residents of Stanley have that overhead. sheltered harbour and access hardy, cooperative friendliness to abundant fresh water and often found in remote peat for fuel. Initially surviving communities. One doesn’t

FRAM SHUTTLE TIMINGS

SHIP JVC 0830 0845 0900 0915 0930 0945 1000 1015 1030 1045 1100 1115 1130 1145 1200 1215 1230 1245 1300 1315 1330 1345 1400 1415 1430 1445 1500 1515 15:30

Last shuttle bus from Jetty Visitor Centre at 1530

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PROGRAM FRIDAY, 02.12.2016 – SCOTIA SEA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4 DINNER MENU 20:00 2nd seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

In accordance with International 12:00 Framheim/Chinese 22:00 Panorama Lounge, deck 7. Association of Tour Information about extra activities We invite you to our fashion Operators (IAATO) protocols, in and Antarctica show, where some of the officers Antarctic Treaty regulations, and and the expedition team will show Norwegian law, the following 14:30 Framheim/English a selection of the clothing we IAATO briefings are mandatory Mandatory IAATO briefing and have in the onboard shop. for all passengers. Please information about South Georgia arrange to be present if you like for boatgroup 7 and 8 We would like to inform you that to land in South Georgia or all stated times and activities are Antarctica. 14:30 Polhøgda/Chinese changeable due to weather Mandatory IAATO briefing and conditions, or other 09:30 Framheim/English information about South Georgia circumstances out of our control. Mandatory IAATO briefing and We kindly remind you to take care information about South Georgia 16:15 Framheim/English Seabirds walking around on the ship while for boatgroup 4,5 and 6. of the Southern Oceans - Masters at sea. Especially venturing out of the Sea by Helga Kristiansen on deck, mind the signs for 09:30 Polhøgda/Deutsch warning of wet and slippery. Be Teilnahmepflichtige IAATO- 16:15 Polhøgda/Deutsch aware the doors toward the outer Veranstaltung und Informationen Die Einsamste aller Inseln - decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be zu Südgeorgien. Südgeorgien von Steffen potentially dangerous in windy Biersack conditions. While walking inside, 11:15 Framheim/English hold on to railings but not in door Information about extra activities 17:45 & 20:00 Film frames. in South Georgia and Antarctica Framheim/English: South, the original film of the 11:15 Polhøgda/Deutsch 1914-1916 expedition, 80min Informationen über extra Aktivitäten in Süd Georgien und 17:45 & 20:00 Film in Antarktika. Polhøgda/German: The endurance, verschollen im Packeis, 90 min

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PROGRAM SATURDAY, 03.12.2016 – SCOTIA SEA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 WAFFLES 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4 DINNER MENU 20:00 2nd seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

We kindly ask you to read the 12:00 Bookingdeadline for all 17:00 Framheim (English) Polar Biosecuritey checks for all optional activities in South Photography by Dominic passenger visits to South Georgia Georgia and Antarctica. Barrington which you find further down in this program. All who would like to 12:00-14:30 Vacuuming for 20:00 Polhøgda/Chinese land in South Georgia need to backpacks and other things you Information about our landings in sign at the reception! will bring ashore in South Georgia Deadline: December 3th at 17:00 taken from your home continent. South Georgia SEE THE BIOSECURITY SELF You are able to use the vacuum AUDIT CHECK LIST BELOW system on deck 2, 3 and 5- crew 18:00 & 20:00 Framheim /English is available to assist you. Information about our landings in 09:30 Framheim/English Minimize South Georgia your impact von Will Baker 15:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch Südgeorgien - vom Jagdrevier Please remember to cover your windows from light for the sake of 09:30 Polhøgda//English with zum Naturschutzgebiet von the birds German translation Regina Gehmlich Polar Photography by Dominic South Georgia Biosecurity Self Barrington 15:00 Framheim/English Land of Audit Check list & Landing the Seals by Jónína Ólafsdóttir Declaration for all Visitors 11:00 Framheim/English The loneliest Island - South Georgia 16:00 Framheim/English Invasive animal and plant species pose a very real threat to South by Steffen Biersack Mandatory briefing for everyone Georgia’s fragile environment. By who has signed up for kayaking complying with the simple 11:00 Polhøgda/English with measures below you will German translation Seabirds of 17:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch personally be making a real and the Southern Oceans - Masters of Information über unsere valuable contribution to the the Sea by Helga Kristiansen Anlandungen in Südgeorgien conservation of the island.

The biosecurity measures designed by South Georgia

Government are intended to protect the island by preventing the introduction or transfer between sites of any organic material including animals, plants, seeds, soil and diseases.

Please study carefully the ______following points. We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are changeable due to weather · Have you scrubbed all of conditions, or other your footwear in the bootwashing circumstances out of our control. station on board your vessel, We kindly remind you to take care removing all soil and organic walking around on the ship while material? at sea. Especially venturing out on deck, mind the signs for · Have you inspected all of warning of wet and slippery. Be your clothing for soil, seeds and aware the doors toward the outer insects, especially cuffs, Velcro, decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be pockets, seams and hoods? potentially dangerous in windy conditions. While walking inside, · Is all your equipment and hold on to railings but not in door luggage clean and free of soil and frames. seeds? This includes walking sticks, ski poles and tripods for cameras.

· Have you emptied, vacuumed and inspected inside any bags that you plan to take ashore, to ensure absence of soil, seeds and insects?

· Have you removed all fresh produce, especially poultry products*, from any bags or garments that you intend to take ashore? (* In order to prevent the introduction of avian diseases)

· Do you understand that you need to repeat the biosecurity self check procedure before landing at each new site?

· Have you seen anything which causes you concern? If so, please speak to your Expedition Leader or Officer in charge, who can raise it directly with the Government of South Georgia if necessary.

Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Island

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PROGRAM SUNDAY, 04.12.2016 – FORTUNA BAY & STRØMNESS

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:00 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNERBUFFET 18:00-21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Point in 1916 as her helmsman Approx 08:30 We hope to do a Afternoon We hope to do a was reading a letter from home. landing in Fortuna Bay. Weather, landing at Strømness. We will Shackleton and his stalwart wind and ice conditions permitting, then begin our landing by calling companions also came through we will begin our landing by calling group 4,5,6 and 7. Then we are here in 1916 in their slog from the hikers (list on deck 4) Hikers going to have a break before the one side of South Georgia to the will receive a separate information other groups are called. The other. The bay is home to king into their cabins. After the hikers, break will be announced over the penguins, gentoo penguins, fur we call immediately for groups 3 & loudspeaker system. After the seals, elephant seals and many 4. As these are approx 100 break we are ready for groups 8, flighted birds including albatross passengers, we are going to have 1,2,3. Listen carefully for the and southern giant petrels. King a short break - of approx. 30 announcements for your group to penguins prefer to nest at long, minutes. The break will be be called. You need to wear open beaches with large swell. announced over the PA System. rubber boots. The king penguin colony at After the break, we call for groups Whistle Cove in Fortuna Bay is 5,6,7,8,1,2 Rubber boots are Please remember to stay at least the most accessible on South mandatory footwear. 200 meters from the whaling Georgia. station! There is no smoking Listen to the instructions of the anywhere on the island. Strømness Bay is home to the guides ashore, timings for return to three deserted whaling stations; the ship will be given ashore!!!!! Remember to return to the Strømness, , and Please do not approach deck 2 landing site immediately if the . Unfortunately, the station until your group is called. ship’s horn sounds buildings cannot be entered for safety reasons but one can After the landing: Vacuuming for Please remember to cover your usually get close enough to backpacks and other things you windows from light for the sake of acquire a sense of what they will bring ashore on the next the birds must have been like during their landing. You are able to use the heyday. Elephant seals and fur vacuum system on deck 3 and 5. Fortuna Bay was named not for seals are found along the beach. Remember to clean your rubber the Roman Goddess of luck but There is a small gentoo boots before you leave the landing for one of the first whaling ships population as well as occasional site and disinfect at the cleaning in the area. The inaptly named king penguins. It was from the station on tenderpit. Fortuna ran aground at Hope nearby station of Husvik that the

entire staff volunteered to rescue Shakleton’s 22 men stranded on . Setting out in Southern Sky, and the men of Husvik would not be able to get through the sea ice surrounding Elephant Island and it would take Shackleton four attempts and over four months to reach his men.

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PROGRAM MONDAY, 05.12.2016 –

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:30 - 15:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNERBUFFET 18:00 – 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Ca 08:00 MV Fram will arrive in 5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4. There is no limit book this tour, you just meet up. It Grytviken on how many who can go ashore will only be given in English in Grytviken. Listen carefully for 08:00 Framheim Information the announcements for your 12:00 We will arrange one time the meeting Grytviken Nature Cruise group to be called. Rubber boots tour called “Shackelton at (Group A, B and C) Please check are necessary. Listen to the Grytviken”. Meetingplace is in front the lists on deck 4. Boat Cruise instructions of the guides ashore, of the museum.You do not need to Group A will go cruising directly timings for return to the ship will book this tour, you just meet up. It after the meeting be given ashore. Please do not will only be given in English approach deck 2 until your group Ca 08:15 Framheim/English A is called. 15:00 Framheim representative from South Life and science at King Edward Georgia Heritage Trust - working The Kayakers- Grytviken: Meet in Point at the museum will come onboard front of Expedition Desk on Deck and have a short lecture about 4 - please listen to the In the museum building ashore the "Eradication of rats in South announcement! there is a small but well equipped Georgia" program while the ship souvenir shop which sells a good is being formally cleared by the 10:30 PolarCirkleboat Cruise selection of books, clothing and a government official - marine group B. Please meet on deck 2 bit of jewelry. Credit cards are officer in Grytviken, before the to dress in the regatta suits. welcome, as well as USD, GBP landing starts. Listen to the Please listen to the and Euro. If you would like to hand announcement for when the announcements for exact timings. in your "Sponsor a hectar" form representative is onboard and (available near reception), you can when the presentation starts. 14:00 PolarCirkleboat Cruise do so in the museum. To have one group C. Please meet on deck 2 hectare "rat-free", it is a US Ca 09:00 We launch the hikers to dress in the regatta suits. 145/Pound 90 sponsorship. It is Grytviken-Maiviken-Grytviken Please listen to the also possible to visit the local Post with the Polar Cirkle boats. announcements for exact timings. Office behind the museum.

Ca 09:15 We hope for a landing 10:00 & 11:00 We will arrange the Shackleton Grave: It is allowed to at Grytviken “Tour of the whaling station” two have a toast when you stand next We start with cruisers B & C, then times. Meetingplace is in front of to Shackletons grave. You might followed by group number the museum. You do not need to buy a small bottle of Whiskey

onboard MV Fram and take it with Please remember to cover your example of a steam-powered you. windows from light for the sake of whale-catcher. Just across the the birds cove from Grytviken is King Late afternoon/Evening: MV Fram Edward Point, site of the former will arrive in Hercules Bay Founded by Norwegian Carl British Garrison and now home to Anton Larsen in 1904, Grytviken a British Antarctic Survey applied We hope to do a half an hour was the first whaling station in fisheries research station as well cruising for everybody at Hercules Antarctic waters. Here it is as the Marine Officer, the Bay. possible to pay your respects to Government's sole Sir and others representative. The Marine We begin our cruising by calling at the graveyard and visit the Officer’s duties include those of boat group 6,7,8,1,2,3,4. Listen Whaler’s Church. The manager’s Harbour Master, Customs and carefully for the announcements house became the South Georgia Immigration, Fisheries Officer, for your group to be called. Please Whaling Museum in 1992 and is and sub-Postmaster. Captain do not approach deck 2 until your maintained by the British Larsen knew a good thing when group is called. Rubber boots are Antarctic Survey and the he saw it; is mandatory footwear. Government of South Georgia. located in a protected corner of The museum has a rich and . The pier at Vacuuming for backpacks and fascinating display of whaling, Grytviken is very unstable other things you will bring ashore sealing, exploring, and natural however and landings usually on the next landing. You are able histories of the whole island. occur on a beach set out by the to use the vacuum system on deck There is also a shop with a Marine Officer. 3 and 5. Remember to clean your variety of souvenirs – they accept rubber boots before you leave the British pounds, Euros, American landing site and disinfect at the dollars, and Visa credit cards (no cleaning station on tenderpit. Amex). Grytviken is home to several derelict ships, including Petrel, an excellent surviving

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PROGRAM TUESDAY, 06.12.2016 – ST ANDRES & DRYGALSKI FJORD

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:00 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNERBUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Ca 08:30 We hope to do a Aires, please do not to book it Incognita. Cook began mapping landing at St Andrews. We will again. the east coast. When he arrived then begin our landing by calling at the southern end and looked group 7,8,1,2. Then we are going Evening: Weather permitting, we back up the west coast, he to have a break before the other hope to sail into the beautiful realized that he had discovered groups are called. The break will Drygalski Fjord. only an island. He left the mark of be announced over the his frustration by naming the loudspeaker system. After the Please remember to cover your southern end Cape break we are ready for groups windows from light for the sake of Disappointment. Also at the 3,4,5,6. Listen carefully for the the birds southern end of South Georgia is announcements for your group to picturesque Drygalski Fjord. The be called. You need to wear St. Andrews Bay: According to fjord is named for Erich Dagobert rubber boots. the expedition team this is “just von Drygalski, a professor of the most amazing place in the geography and geophysics at the Remember to return to the world”, probably due to South University of Berlin who led the landing site immediately if the Georgia’s largest king penguin German South Polar Expedition, ship’s horn sounds and elephant seal concentration. 1901-03. The bay is fully exposed to the After the landing: Vacuuming for open sea and the frequently backpacks and other things you occurring strong winds that will bring ashore on the next plummet from the summits of the landing. You are able to use the Allardyce Range (up to 2000m vacuum system on deck 3 and 5. high). The 3km long fine dark Remember to clean your rubber sanded beach only gets boots before you leave the interrupted by some rivers flowing landing site and disinfect at the from the Heaney, Buxton and cleaning station on tenderpit. Cook Glaciers. Enjoy!

18:00 Bookingdeadline for all Drygalski Fjord: When he excursions and bustransfers in surveyed South Georgia in 1775, Buenos Aires and Ushuaia. If you Captain Cook believed he had already have prebooked this at discovered a headland of the home or in the hotel in Buenos mythical continent Terra Australis

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PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 07.12.2016 – AT SEA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4 DINNER MENU 20:00 2nd seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

09:30 Framheim / English Ice - erstaunlichen Materials von Human eyes did not see Portrait of a Surprising Steffen Biersack Antarctica until 1820 yet it had Material by Steffen Biersack been known to exist since the time of Aristotle. Although it 17:00 Panorama Lounge has been on our maps and 09:30 Polhøgda / German Into the ice, a little storytelling about Fram and her men with charts and satellite photos for Überleben in Eis und Schnee - Helga Kristiansen less than two hundred years, it Anpassungstrategien der survived in our imaginations antarktischen Tierwelt von 18:00 & 20:00 Film for two thousand years before Regina Gehmlich Framheim/English: that. Among all the mythical Shackleton with Kenneth and magical places of the world Atlantis, El Dorado, the 11:00 Framheim/English: Branagh, part 1, 100 min Fountain of Youth - Antarctica Information about the landing is the only one we have found tomorrow. 18:00 & 20:00 Film so far. Its very existenceis Polhøgda/English with proof of magic. The history of 11:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch: German subtitles Antarctica is however one of Informationen über unsere South, Ein film von Frank Hurley (1919). Das Original resource rape; first the seals Anlandung Morgen. Filmdokument von Sir Ernest and then the whales. Will there Shackletons legendärer be a third era? We encourage 15:15 Framheim / English Antarktis-Expedition 1914- you to keep Antarctica a part Surviving in ice and snow - 1917, 80 min of your life always. The people adaptation strategies of who visit Antarctica may be Antarctic wildlife by Regina 21:45 Today we would like to the continent’s best hope for Gehmlich invite you for the Whiskey its pristine survival, as they become advocates and show from our Chief Officer in emissaries. 15:15 Polhøgda / German the Panorama Lounge on Deck 7. Eis – Portrait eines

We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are changeable due to weather conditions, or other circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out on deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. Be aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door frames.

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PROGRAM THURSDAY, 08.12.2016 – ORCADAS STATION

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNEBUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Ca 08:30 We hope to do a Afternoon: Weather permitting, anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 landing at Orcadas Station. we hope to cruise around the people reside throughout the We will then begin our landing beautiful South Orkney year at the research stations by calling group 8 and 1. Then Islands. scattered across the continent. we are going to have a break before the other groups are 18:00 & 20:00 Film Only cold-adapted plants and called. The break will be Framheim/English: animals survive there, announced over the Shackleton with Kenneth including penguins, seals, loudspeaker system. Listen Branagh, part 2, 100 min nematodes, tardigrades, carefully for the mites, many types of algae announcements for your group 18:00 & 20:00 Film and other microorganisms, to be called. You need to wear Polhøgda/English with and tundra vegetation. Belief rubber boots. German subtitles Eis und Meer, Polar- und in the existence of a Terra Remember to return to the Meeresforschung am Alfred- Australis – a vast continent in landing site immediately if the Wegener-Institut, 30 min the far south of the globe to ship’s horn sounds "balance" the northern lands of Antarctica, on average, is the Europe, Asia and North Africa After the landing: Vacuuming coldest, driest, and windiest – has existed since the times for backpacks and other things continent, and has the highest of Ptolemy (1st century AD), you will bring ashore on the average elevation of all the next landing. You are able to who suggested the idea to use the vacuum system on continents. Antarctica is preserve the symmetry of all deck 3 and 5. Remember to considered a desert, with known landmasses in the clean your rubber boots before annual precipitation of only world. Depictions of a large you leave the landing site and 200 mm (8 inches) along the southern landmass were disinfect at the cleaning station coast and far less inland. common in maps such as the on tenderpit. There are no permanent early 16th century Turkish Piri human residents, but Reis map. Even in the late

17th century, after explorers had found that South America and Australia were not part of the fabled "Antarctica", geographers believed that the continent was much larger than its actual size. European maps continued to show this hypothetical land until Captain James Cook's ships, HMS Resolution and Adventure, crossed the Antarctic Circle on 17 January 1773, in December 1773 and again in January 1774

We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are changeable due to weather conditions, or other circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out on deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. Be aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door frames.

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PROGRAM FRIDAY, 09.12.2016 – ELEPHANT ISLAND

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER BUFFET 18:00-21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Bridge visit Approx 16:00 We arrive at of December: Meeting point elevators,deck 6 Elephant Island which is an Island 09:00 Group B with very little weather protection. 1. Flight LA4443 08:45-12:05 Wind and ice condition will decide 2. Flight LA4969 12:50-16:10 09:20 Group C what we are able to do once we 09:40 Group D get there. We kindly ask you to All passengers joining the 17:00 Group E listen to the announcements for Escondido Lake excursion will be 17:30 Group F updated information on our automatically on the second flight. intentions at Elephant Island. Passengers with transfer 09:30 Polhøgda / German arranged by Hurtigruten will be, Die Reise der James Caird von 17:30 Framheim/English: assigned to the second flight as Adrian Rubio Information about the landing well. tomorrow. We only have a few seats 11:00 Framheim / English 21:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch: available on the first flight. Giants of the Antarctic by Jónína Informationen über unsere Any request for flights Ushuaia – Ólafsdóttir Anlandung Morgen. Buenos Aires must be submitted to Ina between 09:00 and 10:45 11:00 Polhøgda / Norwegian 21:30 Film Framheim/English: today Fritjof Nansen med Svein Visdal Shackleton with Kenneth Branagh, part 2, 100 min The final flight and transfer lists 14:30 Framheim / English The will be posted on the information Mighty White: Antarctica - rock 21:30 Film Polhøgda/English with board near Reception 2 days hard facts by Steffen Biersack German subtitles before Ushuaia. Eis und Meer, Polar- und Meeresforschung am Alfred- A name steeped in legend, 14:30 Polhøgda / English with Wegener-Institut, 30 min Elephant Island is an icon for German translation “Antarctics” the way Cape Horn is Giants of the Antarctic by Jónína for mariners. This imposing and Ólafsdóttir (ENG w. GER We will have 2 flights from desolate island was home to 22 translation) Ushuaia to Buenos Aires the 16th marooned members of Sir Ernest

Shackleton’s fabled 1914 Imperial there. Point Wild is home to a circumstances out of our control. Trans-Antarctic Expedition for small colony of hardy chinstrap We kindly remind you to take care four and a half months while they penguins and a single bronze walking around on the ship while awaited rescue. Led by one of bust incongruously watching over at sea. Especially venturing out Antarctica’s greatest unsung them. The bust is of Captain Luis on deck, mind the signs for heroes John Robert Francis Pardo master of the Chilean Navy warning of wet and slippery. Be (known as Frank) Wild, the men ship Yelcho that eventually aware the doors toward the outer barely survived living in horrible rescued Shackleton’s men. decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be conditions beneath two potentially dangerous in windy overturned lifeboats. Named for We would like to inform you that conditions. While walking inside, Frank, Point Wild was originally all stated times and activities are hold on to railings but not in door known as and “Cape changeable due to weather frames Bloody Wild” by the men stranded conditions, or other

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PROGRAM SATURDAY, 10.12.2016 – BROWN BLUFF

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:30 - 15:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER BUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

10:00 Framheim Information outside Polhøgda conference 17:00 Panorama Lounge meeting PolarCirkelboat room. Nordenskiöld with Helga Cruise (Group A, B, and C) Kristiansen Please check the lists on deck 13:00 PolarCirkleboat Cruise 4. Boat Cruise Group A will go group B. Please meet on deck 21:00 Framheim/English: cruising directly after the 2 to dress in the regatta suits. Information about the landing meeting. Please listen to the tomorrow. announcements for exact 10:30 We hope to do a landing timings. You have to eat your 21:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch: at Brown Bluff lunch before the cruise. Informationen über unsere Anlandung Morgen. We begin our landing by 14:30 PolarCirkleboat Cruise calling Boat cruise group B group C. Please meet on deck The descriptively named and C, then boat group 2 and 2 to dress in the regatta suits. Brown Bluff lies on the coast 3. Please listen then for the Please listen to the of the Antarctic Sound at the break time. After the break, we announcements for exact end of the Tabarin Peninsula. welcome groups 4,5,6,7,8,1. timings. Listen carefully for the Curiously, the Tabarin announcements for your group 14:30-17:00 Vacuuming for Peninsula was named after to be called. Please do not backpacks and other things Operation Tabarin, the British approach deck 2 until your you will bring ashore in Naval expedition to establish group is called. Rubber boots Antarctica taken from your territory on the Antarctic are mandatory footwear. home continent. You are able Peninsula. Adélie penguins, Return time to the ship will be to use the vacuum system on gentoo penguins, kelp gulls, given ashore. deck 3 & 5. and Cape petrels all breed here under an ominous, 745 Kayakers group B please This afternoon we will metre-high (2450 feet) cliff. An listen to the announcements shipcruise in the beautiful even, stony beach with many for you to be called. We meet Antarctic Sound. rocky breaks often offers easy landings. Later in the season,

there are so many Adélies We would like to inform you lounging on the beach that it that all stated times and may be impossible to land activities are changeable due without disturbing them. Be to weather conditions, or other aware that your landing site circumstances out of our may change over the course control. We kindly remind you of landing operations due to to take care walking around on tides. Make sure to look for the ship while at sea. leopard seals patrolling the Especially venturing out on water off the beach. deck, mind the signs for Experienced staff will tell you warning of wet and slippery. Be that the best way to aware the doors toward the experience an Adélie rookery outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 is to sit quietly and just can be potentially dangerous in observe nature’s greatest windy conditions. While walking comedians at work., kelp gulls, inside, hold on to railings but blue-eyed shags also may be not in door frames. seen, but breeding is not confirmed.

The Antarctic Sound lies between the very tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and D’Urville, Joinville, and Dundee Islands. The sound was not named for its location but rather for the ship Antarctic during Otto Nordenskjöld’s 1903 Swedish South Polar Expedition, captained by Norwegian legend . Huge tabular icebergs from the ice shelves in the Weddell Sea are brought here in the Weddell’s gyre-like currents. Known as “Iceberg Alley” by expedition staff, it is an astonishing assortment of floating ice both large and small. Although the 48 kilometre-long (30 mile) sound is often difficult to penetrate, it offers the most impressive array of ice that we are likely to see on our journey. The area is home to a high concentration of Adélie penguins with estimates as high as 500 000 nesting pairs. Emperor penguins are an extremely rare sight in the Antarctic Peninsula area. If you do see one, it will likely be floating by you on an ice floe in the Antarctic Sound.

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PROGRAM SUNDAY, 11.12.2016 HALF MOON ISLAND & WHALERS BAY

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 BUFFET 18:30 - 21:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

07.45 Kayakers group C 14:30 Polhøgda / German on deck 2 to dress in the please meet at the reception. Pinguin von Regina Gehmlich regatta suits. Please listen to the announcements for exact 08:30 We hope to do a landing timings. You have to eat your 15:30 Framheim Information at Half Moon Island lunch before the cruise. meeting PolarCirkelboat We begin our landing by Cruise (Group A and B) 18:45 PolarCirkleboat Cruise calling Kayakers D, then boat Geology. Please check the group B. Please meet on deck group 3,4,5,6. Please listen lists on deck 4. 2 to dress in the regatta suits. then for the break time. After Please listen to the Afternoon We hope to do a the break, we welcome groups announcements for exact landing at Whalers Bay 7,8,1,2. Listen carefully for the timings. You have to eat your announcements for your group lunch before the cruise. We begin our landing by to be called. Please do not calling Hikers first, then approach deck 2 until your 21:30 Framheim/English: cruisers group B, then boat group is called. Rubber boots Information about the landing group 4,5,6. Please listen then are mandatory footwear. tomorrow. for the break time. After the Return time to the ship will be break, we welcome groups given ashore. 21:30 Polhøgda/Deutsch: 7,8,1,2,3. Listen carefully for Informationen über unsere the announcements for your 10:00 Kayakers group D group to be called. Please do Anlandung Morgen. please meet at the reception not approach deck 2 until your ready to go. You will make group is called. Rubber boots Half Moon Island is a two- your normal landing before are mandatory footwear. kilometre long (1.2 mile), you go kayaking Return time to the ship will be crescent-shaped island in the

given ashore. shadow of the picturesque 14:30 Framheim / English mountains and glaciers of Penguins by Helga Kristiansen Ca 16:45 PolarCirkleboat nearby Livingston Island. It is Cruise group A. Please meet a favoured expedition stop for its large chinstrap penguin

rookery. Other than a short Chilean base farther down hill, walking is generally easy. Port Foster in . The serrated and crevassed Today there are two stations in cliffs are also home to operation, Spain’s Gabriel de Antarctic terns, kelp gulls, Castilla and Argentina’s snowy sheathbills, and Decepción. Wilson’s storm petrels. Landings are usually made on We would like to inform you an easily accessible, wide that all stated times and beach where an abandoned activities are changeable due dory lies decaying. Once up to weather conditions, or other the hill, there are magnificent circumstances out of our views of Livingston Island and control. We kindly remind you humpback whales have been to take care walking around on spotted breeching in the water the ship while at sea. between the two islands. Especially venturing out on Down towards the western deck, mind the signs for end of the beach is Teniente warning of wet and slippery. Camara station with its huge Be aware the doors toward the Argentine flags emblazoned outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 on the orange buildings. The can be potentially dangerous station has been sporadically in windy conditions. While staffed in recent years due to walking inside, hold on to the Argentine economy. This railings but not in door frames. will be our only opportunity to see chinstrap penguins in significant numbers.

A portion of the wall of the volcanic caldera of Deception Island has collapsed, flooding the interior and creating an amazing natural harbour known as Port Foster. Access to the interior is through the 200 metre-wide (660 feet) entrance known as Neptune’s Bellows. There is a rock in the middle just under the water and the area to one side is foul. Therefore the ship will have merely 100 metres (330 feet) with which to navigate. Once safely through the Bellows, Whalers Bay will begin to appear off the starboard side of the ship. Whalers Bay was home to factory whaling ships as early as 1905 and a shore station named Hektor from 1912-1931 as well as British Base B built in 1941. Both the base and station were finally destroyed by a mudslide during the 1967-69 eruption along with a

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PROGRAM MONDAY, 12.12.2016 – CUVERVILLE & NEKO

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER BUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

08:00 Framheim Information 10:30 PolarCirkleboat Cruise Afternoon (time will be meeting PolarCirkelboat group E. Please meet on deck announced) PolarCirkleboat Cruise (Group D, E, F and G) 2 to dress in the regatta suits. Cruise group F. Please meet Please check the lists on deck Please listen to the on deck 2 to dress in the 4. Boat Cruise Group D will go announcements for exact regatta suits. Please listen to cruising directly after the timings. the announcements for exact meeting. timings. You will go ashore for 14:00 Polhøgda normal landing after the Ca 08:30 Kayakers group E Informationmeeting for the cruise. please listen to the campers group A announcements for you to be Afternoon: We hope to do a Afternoon (time will be called. We will meet at the landing at Neko Harbor. announced) PolarCirkleboat reception. Cruise group G. Please meet We begin our landing by on deck 2 to dress in the Ca 08:30 We hope to do a calling Boat cruise G, regatta suits. Please listen to landing at Cuverville Island. Campers A, followed by boat the announcements for exact group 6,7,8,1. Please listen timings. You will go ashore for We begin our landing by then for the break time. After normal landing before the calling Boat cruise E and then the break, we welcome groups cruise start. boat group 5,6 7,8,. Please 2,3,4,5. Listen carefully for the listen then for the break time. announcements for your group Evening / Campers: We hope After the break, we welcome to be called. Please do not to arrange a camp at Damoy groups 1,2,3,4. Listen carefully approach deck 2 until your Point. Kindly listen to the for the announcements for group is called. Rubber boots announcement for when to go your group to be called. are mandatory footwear. ashore. Please eat your dinner Please do not approach deck Return time to the ship will be at 18:00. 2 until your group is called. given ashore Rubber boots are mandatory 21:00 Framheim/English: footwear. Return time to the Information about the landing ship will be given ashore. tomorrow.

minimum breeding population walking inside, hold on to 21:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch: of approximately 1700 pairs. railings but not in door frames. Informationen über unsere Snow algae may bloom.

Anlandung Morgen. Snowy sheathbills, kelp gulls,

blue-eyed shags also may be The Errera Channel is a seen, but breeding is not scenic, narrow waterway between Rongé Island and the confirmed. Arctowski Peninsula on the mainland. It was discovered by Andvord Bay penetrates deep the Belgica expedition and into the Antarctic Peninsula; named for Professor Léo from here the Weddell Sea Errera of the University of side is a mere fifty kilometres Brussels, a benefactor of the (30 miles) away. Once inside voyage. Errera is home to the bay, one is surrounded on Danco and Cuverville Islands. all sides by the mountains and alpine glaciers of the Cuverville Island supports one peninsula. The bay is of the largest known gentoo splendidly scenic and fills with penguin colonies. This can be castellated icebergs and apparent from miles away wildlife in the long days of the given the right wind direction. summer. Nestled at the bottom Early in the season, snow of the bay is Neko Harbour, cover impedes but doesn’t named for a whaling ship stop penguins accessing their which anchored there in the nests and an intricate network early 1900’s. It is one of the of “penguin highways” is rare places in the Antarctic carved into the snow. The Peninsula area where one can shallow waters between come ashore on the Antarctic Cuverville and Rongé islands mainland. Hike up the hill to often trap and ground the penguin rookery and an icebergs. This makes for amazing view of Andvord Bay superb ship-cruising through but do not continue onto the the channel. Up from the glacier as it is heavily rookery at Cuverville, steep crevassed. The glacier across cliffs lead to the island top. the tiny harbour is very active These cliffs should be avoided and creates very impressive so as not to damage the but dangerous waves when it mosses and lichens that grow calves – please stay off the there. The cliffs are also home beach. to skuas that are vigorous in defending their well-hidden We would like to inform you nests. that all stated times and Danco is a one-mile (1.6km) activities are changeable due to weather conditions, or other long island lies in the southern circumstances out of our part of the Errera Channel, off control. We kindly remind you the western coast of Graham to take care walking around on Land. Danco Island was first the ship while at sea. chartered by Gerlache and is Especially venturing out on named for the geophysicist deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. who died during the Belgica Be aware the doors toward the expedition of 1897-99. Gentoo outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 penguins are confirmed can be potentially dangerous breeders and there is a in windy conditions. While

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PROGRAM TUESDAY, 13.12.2016 –

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER BUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

09:30 Framheim Information 22:00 Today we would like to in 1996 by the Antarctic meeting PolarCirkelboat invite you for our Crewshow in Heritage Trust (AHT), Base ‘A’ Cruise (H) Please check the the Panorama Lounge on on Goudier Island at Port lists on deck 4. Boat Cruise Deck 7. Lockroy has become one of Group H will go cruising the most visited sites in directly after the meeting. The region we will sail in today Antarctica. It now operates as was extensively explored by a museum, kept as it was in Ca 10:00 We hope to do a the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste the 1950s, as well as a post landing at Port Lockroy. Etienne Auguste Charcot in office and souvenir shop with 1908-1910. He explored more all proceeds going to the AHT, We begin our landing by than 1990 km (1240 miles) of a non-profit organization calling boat group 7 and 8. previously unknown coastline. dedicated to conserving this Please listen then for the During his first expedition and other historical huts in break time. After the break, we aboard the vessel Français in Antarctica. welcome groups 1,2,3,4,5,6. 1903-1905 he discovered Port Listen carefully for the Lockroy and Booth Island. The Lemaire Channel was first announcements for your group sighted by Eduard Dallman in to be called. Please do not Port Lockroy: during Operation 1873 and then charted and approach deck 2 until your Tabarin in 1944, the British set traversed by Adrien de group is called. Rubber boots up two bases in the Peninsula Gerlache in 1898. He named it are mandatory footwear. area to establish a permanent for Charles Lemaire, a fellow Return time to the ship will be presence in the Antarctic. Belgian who explored the given ashore. They set up Base ‘A’ at Port Congo for King Leopold III. Lockroy, a known safe Given the right weather, this Afternoon: We will try to go anchorage. Base ‘B’, was eleven kilometre-long (seven through the scenic Lemaire established at Whalers Bay, mile) and 1.6 kilometre-wide Channel. Recommendation is Deception Island. The base at (one mile) channel can be to stay on the outer decks Port Lockroy was operational strikingly beautiful. The steep when we sail through this until 1962 and then fell into cliffs and glaciers of Booth scenic channel. disrepair. Since its restoration Island to one side mirror the

opposite shores of the Antarctic Peninsula. When protected from the wind, the clear waters offer an extraordinary reflection of the mountains in the water; there can appear to be four different sets nudging each other. So many camera clicks can be heard during a traverse of the Lemaire Channel that it is known by expedition staff as the “Kodak Crack”. Navigation of the channel is dependent upon ice conditions but one doesn’t need to travel all the way down to experience its beauty.

We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are changeable due to weather conditions, or other circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out on deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. Be aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door frames.

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PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 14.12.2016 – AT SEA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 WAFFLES 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 FILIPINO BUFFET 18:00 – 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

Bridge visit 15:30 Panorama Lounge for two thousand years before Meeting point elevators,deck 6 Quiz with the Expedition team. that. Among all the mythical 09:00 Group E and magical places of the 09:20 Group F 18:00 & 20:00 Film world Atlantis, El Dorado, the 09:40 Group A Framheim/English: (on Fountain of Youth - Antarctica request) is the only one we have found 11:00 Framheim / English Welcome to Port Lockroy, 60 so far. Its very existenceis Plastic Fantastic by Helga min proof of magic. The history of Kristiansen Antarctica is however one of 18:00 & 20:00 Film resource rape; first the seals 11:00 Polhøgda / German Polhøgda/German: (on and then the whales. Will there Die Erzählung der Steine - request) be a third era? We encourage eine Zeitreise durch die Shackleton mit Kenneth you to keep Antarctica a part Antarktis von Regina Branagh, part 2, 100 min of your life always. The people Gehmlich who visit Antarctica may be 22:00 Today we would like to the continent’s best hope for 12:00-14:00 Framheim We will invite you for a Question and its pristine survival, as they have a continuous slide Answer round some of MV become advocates and presentation of Dominic Frams officers in the emissaries. pictures of this expedition! If Panorama Lounge on Deck 7. you are interested, you can We would like to inform you order the DVD at the Human eyes did not see that all stated times and reception. Antarctica until 1820 yet it had activities are changeable due been known to exist since the to weather conditions, or other 15:30 Film Polhøgda/Chinese: time of Aristotle. Although it circumstances out of our Meet the real penguins, 50 has been on our maps and control. We kindly remind you min charts and satellite photos for to take care walking around on less than two hundred years, it the ship while at sea. survived in our imaginations Especially venturing out on

deck, mind the signs for outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 walking inside, hold on to warning of wet and slippery. can be potentially dangerous railings but not in door frames Be aware the doors toward the in windy conditions. While

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PROGRAM THURSDAY, 15.12.2016 – AT SEA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4 DINNER MENU 20:00 2nd seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

09:30 Framheim / English My and invite you for a cocktail in the Please ensure to read the journey into nature by Stian bar. Welcome! disembarkation information Afterwards we have the MV Fram printed and distributed to your Aadland Charity Auction! The auction cabin. The flight and transfer lists supports the Hurtigruten are posted on the information Foundation. board near Reception. Any 09:30 Polhøgda / German Kein questions with regard to From 19:30 In Framheim hall disembarkation, please contact Tsunami in Antarctica – (beinahe) there is a continuous slide the expedition desk. alles über Wellen mit Steffen presentation of Dominic pictures Biersack of this expedition! If you are We would like to inform you that interested, you can order the all stated times and activities are DVD at the reception until changeable due to weather 22:00hours! conditions, or other 11:00 Framheim / English circumstances out of our control. Antarctic Seals - flipper footed You have received a tipping form We kindly remind you to take care mammals by Therese Horntrich in your cabin, if you wish to give walking around on the ship while gratuities to your excellent crew, at sea. Especially venturing out 11:00 Polhøgda / German Wie please fill it out and deliver the on deck, mind the signs for man gut ankommt: Die Prinzipien form to reception. warning of wet and slippery. Be der Navigation von Steffen aware the doors toward the outer Biersack Kindly note that the first bill that decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be you receive is a preliminary one, potentially dangerous in windy 15:30 Panorama lounge: Recap for you to check. Cruise accounts conditions. While walking inside, with the Expedition Team will be settled after 22:00 with the hold on to railings but not in door credit card information given, you frames. 17:00 Panoram Lounge. Captains will be charged automatically and farewell cocktail in Panorama a receipt is send to your email Lounge deck 7: Captain would address. After 22:00 you can pay like to take the Opportunity to cash or with your credit card thank you for travelling with us,

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PROGRAM MONDAY, 28.11.2016 – USHUAIA

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:00 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 06:30 - 08:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

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