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Daily Programs Will Be Times Can Change DAILY PROGRAM TUESDAY, 03.01.2017 – EMBARKATION USHUAIA RESTAURANT TIMINGS TEA,COFFEE & COOKIES 16:00 – 17:30 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 BUFFET DINNER 18:00 – 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 16:00 Check-In the ship in the meantime as Most of the time we will use Check in is on deck 3 and 4. we will depart as soon as all our PolarCirkle boats for Suites can check in on deck 7. are on board! landings. For organizational purposes we are going to 16:00-17:30 Medical Forms Our customary first evening separate you into groups of Please deliver your medical Captain’s Welcome Cocktails approximately 30 - 35 forms to the Doctor in the will take place tomorrow passengers. On deck 4 by the lobby on deck 4. evening. conference rooms, you find an overview of the groups. Have 16:00-17:30 Learn more about a look which group you are in. our voyage and meet some of IMPORTANT: the Expedition Team members Daily Programs will be Times can change. We would in the Observation Lounge on delivered to your cabin each like to inform you that all deck 7. evening. stated times and activities are changeable due to weather Approx. 17:30 Mandatory Expedition Jackets and and ice conditions, or other Safety Drill Please follow the Rubber Boots will be available circumstances out of our instructions over the PA for collection over the coming control. system. The drill will end days. outside, please bring a warm We kindly remind you to take care jacket. We may have the opportunity walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out on to stamp your passport at an deck, mind the signs for warning of MS FRAM Departs from Antarctic base during our wet and slippery decks. Be aware the Ushuaia around 21:30 tonight. voyage. If you would NOT like doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, We are waiting for a number of a stamp, please see 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous delayed passengers and staff. Reception, Deck 4. in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in However, please do not leave door frames. DAILY PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 04.01.2017 – AT SEA OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:30 - 10:00 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 08:30 – 10:00 You are 14:30 Framheim / English 18:00 & 20:00 Film welcome to pick up your Regina gives a talk on the Polhøgda / Deutsch: Expedition Jacket on deck 2. geological history of The Endurance - Verschollen Antarctica: The stones' tale - a im Packeis, 90 min. 10:00 Framheim / English time trip through Antarctica. The Antarctic Ecosystem by 21:30: Captains Cocktail: Francis Wiese 14:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Panorama Lounge, deck 7. Das antarktische Ôkosystem Our captain welcomes you on 10:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch by Francis Wiese board and introduces his Die Erzählung der Steine - officers and the expedition eine Zeitreise durch die 16:00 Framheim / English team. Antarktis by Regina Gehmlich Stian gives Information about extra activities. Bridge visit: If you wish to visit 11:30 Framheim / English: the bridge, please sign up at Jim presents the plans for our 16:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch the Expedition Desk. Sign up voyage & our landings in Judith presents Information list are divided in languages. Antarctica. about extra activities. Timings for bridge visits will be given in the daily program. 11:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch: 17:00 Polhøgda / Chinese Pål presents the plans for our Yibo & Stian present If you wish to have dinner with voyage & our landings in Information about extra some members of the Antarctica. activities. expedition team one evening 18:00 & 20:00 Film: during the expedition, please 12:15 Polhøgda / Chinese sign up at the Expedition Yibo & Jim present the plans Framheim / English: South - Ernest Shackleton and Desk. An invitation with date for our voyage & our landings in Antarctica. the Endurance Expedition, 80 min, old footage and time will be sent to your cabin the day before. If we and tundra vegetation. Belief Resolution and Adventure, cannot accommodate all in the existence of a Terra crossed the Antarctic Circle on requests we will do a drawing Australis – a vast continent in 17 January 1773, in December of names. the far south of the globe to 1773 and again in January "balance" the northern lands of 1774. Antarctica, on average, is the Europe, Asia and North Africa coldest, driest, and windiest – has existed since the times continent, and has the highest of Ptolemy (1st century AD), average elevation of all the who suggested the idea to continents. Antarctica is preserve the symmetry of all We would like to inform you that considered a desert, with known landmasses in the all stated times and activities are annual precipitation of only world. Depictions of a large changeable due to weather 200 mm (8 inches) along the southern landmass were conditions, or other circum- coast and far less inland. common in maps such as the stances out of our control. We There are no permanent early 16th century Turkish Piri kindly remind you to take care human residents, but Reis map. Even in the late walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 17th century, after explorers had found that South America on deck, mind the signs for people reside throughout the warning of wet and slippery. Be year at the research stations and Australia were not part of aware the doors toward the outer scattered across the continent. the fabled "Antarctica", decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be Only cold-adapted plants and geographers believed that the potentially dangerous in windy animals survive there, continent was much larger conditions. While walking inside, including penguins, seals, than its actual size. European hold on to railings but not in door nematodes, tardigrades, maps continued to show this frames. mites, many types of algae hypothetical land until Captain and other microorganisms, James Cook's ships, HMS DAILY PROGRAM THURSDAY, 05.01.2017 – AT SEA OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:30 - 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 20:00 2nd seating In accordance with 10:30 Polhøgda / Chinese 14:00 – 16:00 Vacuuming for International Association of Mandatory IAATO briefing with backpacks and other things Antarctica Tour Operators Yibo & Pål, boat group 3 & 4 you will bring ashore in (IAATO) protocols, Antarctic and we reveal our plans for Antarctica you will be called by Treaty regulations, and tomorrow. boat group to use the vacuum Norwegian law, the IAATO system on deck 2 and 3 - staff briefings are mandatory for From 11:00 and onwards: We are available to assist you. all passengers. Please will call you by your boat group arrange to be present if you to collect your "Rubber boots Please sign the IAATO like to land in Antarctica. - Arctic Muck Boots" on deck declaration afterwards and 2 and 3. The group lists are to collect your boat group 09:30 Framheim / English be found on the info board on patch, which you attach to Mandatory IAATO briefing with deck 4. your jacket. Jim, boat group 5 and 6 and we reveal our plans for 14:00 Framheim / English tomorrow. You can try on a pair, and we Documentary: Penguins – Spy show you down to the boot in the huddle 09:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch room where you can set them Mandatory IAATO briefing with on the rack sorted by cabin 15:30 Lens Cleasing Session Pål, boat group 1 und 2. Wir numbers for the duration of the with our photographer Dominic geben zudem die Pläne für voyage. If you brought your At the fireplace, Deck 4. morgen bekannt. private rubber boots - please come down to deck 2 and 16:30 Framheim: Mandatory 10:30 Framheim / English have them placed on the rack briefing for everyone who has Mandatory IAATO briefing with on deck 2. signed up for kayaking. Jim, boat group 7 and 8 and 12:00 Booking deadline for we reveal our plans for 17:30 Framheim / English tomorrow. extra activities, post-cruise excursions and transfers. Mandatory briefing for everyone who has signed up Please turn page. for Polar Circle Cruising. A name steeped in legend, 60ºS, the convergence is an Elephant Island is an icon for ever-changing frontier. It is the 17:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch & “Antarctics” the way Cape biological limit of the Antarctic Chinese Mandatory briefing Horn is for mariners. This ecosystem and anywhere for everyone who has signed imposing and desolate island south of the convergence is up for Polar Circle Cruising. was home to 22 marooned known as the Antarctic Ocean. members of Sir Ernest While there is often a low fog Approx 18:00 We will do ships Shackleton’s fabled 1914 in the area and an increase in cruising with the FRAM on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic wildlife, other than using a coast of Elephant Island and Expedition for four and a half thermometer, there is no way the famous Point Wild, which months while they awaited to know when you are was home to Shackeltons’ rescue.
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