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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.

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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

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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

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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. Led by one of crossing it; the seas do not get men for more than 4 months Antarctica’s greatest unsung rougher and the water color while he went to fetch help. heroes John Robert Francis does not change. The waters (known as Frank) Wild, the of Antarctica circle the 18:00 & 20:00 men barely survived living in continent in the world’s biggest Framheim / English horrible conditions beneath ocean current at an estimated Polar Photography by our two overturned lifeboats. rate of 150 million cubic ship’s photographer Dominic Named for Frank, Point Wild meters per second. Once Barrington was originally known as Cape carried far into the northern Wild and “Cape Bloody Wild” oceans, the dense polar water 22:00 Panorama Lounge, deck by the men stranded there. has a cooling effect on tropical 7. We invite you to our famous Point Wild is home to a small and temperate waters and is FRAM - fashion show, where colony of hardy chinstrap important to the oceans’ some of the officers and the penguins and a single bronze balance. expedition team will show a bust incongruously watching selection of the clothing we over them. The bust is of have in the onboard shop on Captain Luis Pardo master of We would like to inform you that deck 4. the Chilean Navy ship Yelcho all stated times and activities are that eventually rescued changeable due to weather Shackleton’s men. conditions, or other circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care The Antarctic Convergence walking around on the ship while INFORMATION: is the where the warmer at sea. Especially venturing out To hear PA announcement in waters of the north meet the on deck, mind the signs for your cabin: Select the “Chart” colder, denser, less saline warning of wet and slippery. Be waters of the south. As the aware the doors toward the outer channel or select the “Radio” colder water sinks beneath the decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be channel, then press the blue warmer, a mixing occurs that potentially dangerous in windy button on the black remote to brings nutrients to the surface. conditions. While walking inside, dim the screen. Found between 40ºS and hold on to railings but not in door frames

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PROGRAM FRIDAY, 06.01.2017 – BROWN BLUFF & ESPERANZA

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

During the morning: 10:30 PolarCirkelboat Cruise IMPORTANT FOR ALL We will sail into the Antarctic group A. Please meet on LANDINGS: Sound to reach our destination deck 2 to dress in the regatta Brown Bluff, where we hope to suits. Please listen to the Rubber boots are mandatory do a long landing. announcements for exact footwear. timings. Approx. 10:30 We hope to Be ready for changeable do a landing at Brown Bluff. 10:45 Kayakers; please meet weather. at the fireplace near the We begin our landing by reception. We provide an Expect to get splashed. calling PolarCirkleboat energy bar and a water bottle. Cruise B, and then boat Do not carry items in your group 1, 2, 3 until approx.100 12:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise hands when embarking and passengers are ashore. group B. After your landing disembarking from the boats. We will then announce a break you come back to the ship and Return time to the ship will be before we continue with the get dressed in a regatta suit given ashore. next boat groups. on deck 2. Please listen to the

announcements for exact Remember to return to the Please do not approach deck timings. landing site immediately if the 2 until your group is called. ship’s horn sounds. 21:00 Framheim / English

Information about the landing ENJOY! Today we will start with our tomorrow. activities kayaking and PolarCirkelboat cruising. 21:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch Please check the lists on Informationen über unsere deck 4. Anlandung Morgen.

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The descriptively named experience an Adélie rookery offers the most impressive Brown Bluff lies on the coast is to sit quietly and just array of ice that we are likely to of the Antarctic Sound at the observe nature’s greatest see on our journey. The area is end of the Tabarin Peninsula. comedians at work, kelp gulls, home to a high concentration of Curiously, the Tabarin blue-eyed shags also may be Adélie penguins with estimates Peninsula was named after seen, but breeding is not as high as 500 000 nesting Operation Tabarin, the British confirmed. pairs. Emperor penguins are an Naval expedition to establish a extremely rare sight in the presence on the Antarctic The Antarctic Sound lies Antarctic Peninsula area. If you Peninsula. Adélie penguins, between the very tip of the do see one, it will likely be gentoo penguins, kelp gulls, Antarctic Peninsula and floating by you on an ice floe in and Cape petrels all breed D’Urville, Joinville, and Dundee the Antarctic Sound. here under an ominous, 745 Islands. The sound was not metre-high (2450 feet) cliff. An named for its location but We would like to inform you that even, stony beach with many rather for the ship Antarctic, all stated times and activities are rocky breaks where we will which sank here, during Otto changeable due to weather land. Later in the season, Nordenskjöld’s 1903 Swedish conditions, or other there are so many Adélies South Polar Expedition, circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care lounging on the beach that it captained by Norwegian legend walking around on the ship while may be impossible to land Carl Anton Larsen. Huge at sea. Especially venturing out without disturbing them. Be tabular icebergs from the ice on deck, mind the signs for aware that your landing site shelves in the Weddell Sea are warning of wet and slippery. Be may change over the course brought here in the Weddell’s aware the doors toward the outer of landing operations due to gyre-like currents. It is an decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be tides. Make sure to look for astonishing assortment of potentially dangerous in windy leopard seals patrolling the floating ice both large and conditions. While walking inside, water off the beach! small. Although the 48 hold on to railings but not in door Experienced staff will tell you kilometre-long (30 mile) sound frames that the best way to is often difficult to penetrate, it

INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA  Protect your camera and ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT binoculars of spraywater

CRUISING: (backpack or waterproof bag).  Consider to cancel If you have hip- or backproblems, it might get bumpy!

 You might get wet as the suits are not 100%

waterproof!

 Under the suit we recommend to wear 1 or 2 layers (long woollen

underwear and a fleece).

 Please take with you: sunblocker, scarf, hat

and gloves.

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PROGRAM SATURDAY, 07.01.2017 YANKEE HARBOUR

Today we plan to have a will go to deck two to get landing at Yankee Harbour. dressed in the dry suits. We will also have a kayak group. Please check the list on In the afternoon we set sail for deck 4. our journey to Deception Island and keep a sharp eye out for whales in the IMPORTANT FOR ALL Bransfield Strait. LANDINGS: 08:00: We hope to do a 15:30 Framheim / English Rubber boots are mandatory landing at Yankee Harbour. Mighty marine mammals - footwear. seals and whales in the We begin our landing by Antarctic by Johann Be ready for changeable calling boat group 2, 3, 4 and Torbjørnsen weather. 5 until we have approx. 100 15:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch passengers ashore. Then we Expect to get splashed. Meeressäugetiere by will announce a break. Francis Wiese Do not carry items in your Please listen carefully to the hands when embarking and announcements for your group disembarking from the boats. to be called and do NOT go 17:00 Polhøgda / Chinese down to deck 2 before we call Information about the plans for Return time to the ship will be your group. After the break we tomorrow. given ashore. will continue with the other boat groups. Remember to return to the 17:30 Framheim / English Information about the plans for landing site immediately if the 08:15 Kayakers, please meet ship’s horn sounds. tomorrow. at the reception ready to go. Together with your guide you ENJOY!

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17:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Information about the plans for tomorrow.

A natural haven created by a one kilometre-long (0.6 mile), curved spit; Yankee Harbour on Greenwich Island is so well situated as to appear man- made. Named for the American sealers that frequented here in the 1820’s, remnants of the era linger and a sealer’s tripod can be seen on the beach. Elephant, Weddell, and fur seals are common sights on the beach We would like to inform you that and the main attraction is a all stated times and activities are terraced Gentoo colony changeable due to weather numbering around 4000 pairs. conditions, or other circumstances out of our control. Nearby Glacier Bluff offers a We kindly remind you to take care dramatic backdrop and on a walking around on the ship while clear day, one can see across at sea. Especially venturing out the McFarlane Strait to on deck, mind the signs for Livingston and Half Moon warning of wet and slippery. Be islands. The gravel beach aware the doors toward the outer affords easy walking but can decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous in windy often be windy and cold. Be careful of extensive moss conditions. While walking inside, beds and nesting Skuas and hold on to railings but not in door frames. fur seals.

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PROGRAM SUNDAY, 08.01.2017 DECEPTION ISLAND

Today we plan to have two end of your landing. Towels will continue with the other landings on Deception Island, are provided ashore. boat groups. in Whalers Bay and Telefon Bay. We will also have a We begin our landing by 14:15 PolarCirkleboat Geology Cruise with calling boat group 4, 5, 6 and Geology Cruise. Please meet PolarCirkleboats. Please 7. Please listen carefully to the on deck 2 to dress in the check the list on deck 4. announcements for the break regatta suits. Please listen to time and for your group to be the announcements for exact 07:30: We will sail through the called. After the break we will timings. In order to go ashore narrow entrance of Deception call the other boat groups. after your cruise we call you Island known as “Neptunes after the last boat group (4). Bellows”. It is worth being Approx. 14:30 We hope to outside or close to a window to do a landing at Telephone 21:00 Polhøgda / Chinese witness this navigation. Bay. Information about the plans for tomorrow. Important for both landings: Some scientific instruments Rubber boots are mandatory are located at Telefon Bay. Do 21:00 Framheim / English footwear. Return time to the not approach them! Information about the plans for ship will be given ashore. tomorrow. We begin our landing by calling boat group 5, 6, 7 and 08:15 We hope to do a 21:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch landing at Whalers Bay. 8 until we have approx. 100 passengers ashore. Then we Informationen über unsere will announce a break. morgigen Pläne. At Whalers Bay please remain outside of the buildings and Please listen carefully to the announcements for your group structures. It is unsafe to enter any building! We will to be called and do NOT go offer a scenic hike. If you wish down to deck 2 before we call your group. After the break we to swim, you can do so at the

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A portion of the wall of the eruptions. The rising slope of volcanic caldera of Deception the black, cinder-covered Island has collapsed, flooding volcanic rim can be walked the interior and creating an uphill to spectacular view amazing natural harbour point. known as Port Foster. Access to the interior is through the 200 metre-wide (660 feet) INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA entrance known as Neptune’s ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT

Bellows. There is a rock in the CRUISING: middle just under the water and the area to one side is  Consider to cancel if you foul. Therefore the ship will have hip- or back problems, have merely 100 metres (330 it might get bumpy! feet) with which to navigate. We would like to inform you that Once safely through the  You might get wet as the all stated times and activities are Bellows, Whalers Bay will suits are not 100% changeable due to weather begin to appear off the waterproof! conditions, or other starboard side of the ship. circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care  Under the suit we Whalers Bay was home to walking around on the ship while recommend to wear 1 or 2 at sea. Especially venturing out factory whaling ships as early layers (long woollen on deck, mind the signs for as 1905 and a shore station underwear and a fleece). warning of wet and slippery. Be named Hektor from 1912-1931 aware the doors toward the outer as well as British Base B built  Please take with you: sun decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be in 1941. Both the base and blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. potentially dangerous in windy station were finally destroyed conditions. While walking inside, by a mudslide during the  Protect your camera and hold on to railings but not in door frames. 1967-69 eruption along with a binoculars of spray water

Chilean base farther down (backpack or waterproof Port Foster in Pendulum Cove. bag). Today there are two stations in operation, Spain’s Gabriel de Castilla and Argentina’s Decepción.

Telefon Bay on the north- western side of Port Foster is named for a salvage vessel that moored here in 1909, awaiting repairs. From a wide, flat beach, a black ash apron slopes gently upward and inland for about 985 feet (300 meters) t the steep face of the cinder-covered volcanic glacier and a crater from one of Deception's recent

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PROGRAM MONDAY, 09.01.2017 – WILHELMINA BAY & CUVERVILLE

Our plan today is to cruise with 14:30: We hope to do a landing you will come back to the FRAM in Wilhelmina Bay, landing at Cuverville Island. the ship to get dressed in the which has lovely glacial regatta suits on deck 2. Please scenery and keep a sharp look We begin our landing by listen to the announcements out for whales! calling PolarCirkleboat Cruise for exact timings. In the afternoon we plan to group B, the Campers, land in Cuverville Island. We followed by boat group 6 and will also have a kayak group so on. Please listen then for and two PolarCirkleboat the break time. Listen carefully groups. Weather permitting for the announcements for camping will take place your group to be called. tonight. Please check the lists Please do not approach deck on deck 4. 2 until your group is called. Approx. 20:30 Camping 14:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise Important for all landings: We hope to arrange a camp at Rubber boots are mandatory group A. Kerr Point. Kindly listen to the footwear. Return time to the Please meet on deck 2 to announcement for when to go dress in the regatta suits. ship will be given ashore. ashore. Please eat your dinner Please listen to the early. announcements for exact timings. You will go ashore for 21:00 Polhøgda / Chinese the normal landing after the Information about the landing cruise. We will call you after tomorrow. the last boat group (group 5). 21:00 Framheim / English 14:45 Kayakers meet at the Information about the landing the reception ready to go. tomorrow.

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21:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch the Belgica expedition and to skuas that are vigorous in Informationen über unsere named for Professor Léo defending their well-hidden Anlandung Morgen. Errera of the University of nests. Brussels, a benefactor of the Andvord Bay penetrates deep 22:00 Fruit & Ice Carving. voyage. Errera is home to into the Antarctic Peninsula; Join us in the Panorama Danco and Cuverville Islands. from here the Weddell Sea Lounge and enjoy our talented side is a mere fifty kilometres chefs creating pieces of art (30 miles) away. Once inside with ice and fruits. the bay, one is surrounded on all sides by the mountains and alpine glaciers of the Wilhelmina Bay is a bay 24 peninsula. kilometres (15 mi) wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897- 99 led by Adrien de Gerlache. The bay is named We would like to inform you that for Wilhelmina, Queen of the Cuverville Island supports all stated times and activities are Netherlands, who reigned from one of the largest known changeable due to weather 1890 to 1948. gentoo penguin colonies. This conditions, or other can be apparent from miles circumstances out of our control. Wilhelmina Bay is dubbed We kindly remind you to take care away given the right wind "Whale-mina Bay" for its large walking around on the ship while direction. Early in the season, number of humpback whales. at sea. Especially venturing out snow cover impedes but It is a popular destination for on deck, mind the signs for doesn’t stop penguins tourist expedition ships to warning of wet and slippery. Be accessing their nests and an aware the doors toward the outer Antarctica thanks to its intricate network of “penguin decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be abundant whale population highways” is carved into the potentially dangerous in windy and spectacular scenery. The snow. The shallow waters conditions. While walking inside, bay is surrounded by steep between Cuverville and Rongé hold on to railings but not in door cliffs full of snow and glaciers. frames. islands often trap and ground An almost perfect pyramid- icebergs. This makes for shaped peak towers over the superb ship-cruising through water. the channel. Up from the rookery at Cuverville, steep The Errera Channel is a cliffs lead to the island top. scenic, narrow waterway These cliffs should be avoided between Rongé Island and the so as not to damage the Arctowski Peninsula on the mosses and lichens that grow mainland. It was discovered by there. The cliffs are also home

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PROGRAM TUESDAY, 10.01.2017 – NEKO & PARADISE HARBOUR

06:45 Campers Collection 2 to dress in the regatta suits. normal landing before the Please listen to the announce- cruise. Today we plan to have two ments for exact timings. You landings, in Neko Harbour and will go ashore for the landing Approx. 15:30: We hope to Paradise Harbour. In each after the cruise. We will call do a landing at Paradise destination we will have one you after the last boat group Harbour, near Almirante kayak group and two Polar- (group 7). Brown Station. Cirkleboat groups. Please check the lists on deck 4. 08:45 Kayakers Group A We begin our landing by Please listen to the announce- calling PolarCirkleboat Cruise Important for both landings: ments for you to be called. We group D followed by boat Rubber boots are mandatory will meet at the reception. group 1. Please listen then for footwear. Return time to the the break time. Listen carefully ship will be given ashore. We begin our landing by for the announcements for calling PolarCirkleboat Cruise your group to be called. goup B and then boat group 8 Please do not approach deck and so on. Please listen then 2 until your group is called. for the break time. Listen carefully for the announce- 15:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise

ments for your group to be goup C. Please meet on deck 2 to dress in the regatta suits. called. Please do not approach deck 2 until your Please listen to the announce- group is called. ments for exact timings. You will go ashore for the landing Approx. 08:30: We hope to 10:30 PolarCirkleboat Cruise after the cruise. We will call do a landing at Neko group B. Please meet on you after the last boat group Harbour. deck 2 to dress in the regatta (group 8). suits. Please listen to the 08:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise announcements for exact 15:45 Kayakers Group B goup A. Please meet on deck timings. You will go ashore for Please listen to the announce- Please turn the page.

ments for you to be called. We layers (long woollen will meet at the reception. underwear and a fleece). Paradise Harbor, also known 16:45 PolarCirkleboat Cruise  Please take with you: sun as Paradise Bay, is a wide group D. Please meet on blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. Embayment deck 2 to dress in the regatta behind Lemaire and Bryde suits. Please listen to the  Protect your camera and Islands in Antarctica, indenting announcements for exact binoculars of spray water the west coast of Graham timings. You will go ashore for (backpack or waterproof Land between Duthiers and Le normal landing before the bag). niz Points. The name was first cruise. applied by whalers operating in the vicinity and was in use 21:00 Polhøgda / Chinese Andvord Bay penetrates deep by 1920. It is one of only Information about the landing into the Antarctic Peninsula; two harbors used for cruise tomorrow. from here the Weddell Sea ships to stop on the continent; side is a mere fifty kilometres the other is Neko 21:00 Framheim / English (30 miles) away. Once inside Harbour. Argentina's Almirante Information about the landing the bay, one is surrounded on Brown Antarctic Base stands tomorrow. all sides by the mountains and on the coast of the bay, as alpine glaciers of the does Chile's González Videla 21:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch peninsula. The bay is Antarctic Base. Informationen über unsere splendidly scenic and fills with Anlandung Morgen. castellated icebergs and We would like to inform you that wildlife in the long days of the all stated times and activities are summer. Nestled at the bottom changeable due to weather of the bay is Neko Harbour, conditions, or other named for a whaling ship circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care which anchored there in the walking around on the ship while early 1900’s. It is one of the at sea. Especially venturing out rare places in the Antarctic INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA on deck, mind the signs for Peninsula area where one can warning of wet and slippery. Be ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT come ashore on the Antarctic aware the doors toward the outer CRUISING: mainland. Hike up the hill to decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be the penguin rookery and an potentially dangerous in windy  Consider to cancel if you amazing view of Andvord Bay conditions. While walking inside, have hip- or back problems, but do not continue onto the hold on to railings but not in door it might get bumpy! glacier as it is heavily frames. crevassed. The glacier across  You might get wet as the the tiny harbour is very active suits are not 100% and creates very impressive waterproof! but dangerous waves when it calves – please stay off the  Under the suit we beach. recommend to wear 1 or 2

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DAILY PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 11.01.2017 – PORT LOCKROY & CHARCOT

Today we plan to land in Port Approx. 08:30 Kayakers A 10:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise Lockroy in the morning. Please listen to the group B. Please meet on Afterwards we attempt to ship announcements for you to be deck 2 to dress in the regatta cruise through the scenic called. We will meet at the suits. Please listen to the Lemaire Channel. In the reception. announcements for exact afternoon we plan to land in timings. You will go ashore for Port Charcot. Moreover we Approx. 08:15 We welcome normal landing before the continue with our activities one of the team from Port cruise. kayaking, PolarCirkelboat Lockroy to the Panorama cruising and camping. Please Lounge to tell us about the 13:30 Camping briefing check the lists on deck 4. base and museum, and we group B / Polhøgda, deck 4 encourage everyone to attend Important for both landings: this informative briefing. Afternoon: After leaving Port Rubber boots are mandatory Lockroy it will take just over an footwear. Return time to the After the briefing we will begin hour to get to the entrance of ship will be given ashore. our landing by calling Polar- the scenic Lemaire Channel. Cirkleboat Cruise goup B and Our recommendation is to stay Approx. 08:15 we will try to then boat group 2 etc. on the outer decks when we land in Port Lockroy. Space on the island and sail through this scenic inside the base is limited, so channel. The channel has 08:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise we will operate a one in one goup A. Please meet on deck been blocked with ice for out system. You will have 45 much of the season and the 2 to dress in the regatta suits. min on shore. Please listen to the announce- ice situation will dictate how ments for exact timings. You far we can go. Listen carefully for the will go ashore for the landing announcements for your group after the cruise. Therefore we Stand by for announcements! to be called. Please do not will call you after the last boat approach deck 2 until your group (group 1). Approx. 15:30: If the ice group is called. allows us to go through the

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channel, we hope to do a 1903-1905 he discovered Port all the way down to experience landing at Port Charcot. If Lockroy and Booth Island. its beauty. not, we will be on Plan B. Port Lockroy: during Operation Port Charcot is one of Jim’s Approx. 15:15 Kayakers B Tabarin in 1944, the British set favorite spots. Charcot’s ship Please listen to the announce- up two bases in the Peninsula Français wintered here in ments for you to be called. We area to establish a permanent 1904. We will land on Booth will meet at the reception. presence in the Antarctic. Island where we hope to find They set up Base ‘A’ at Port some Adelie Penguins and We begin our landing by Lockroy, a known safe Chinstrap Penguins. calling boat group 3. Please anchorage. Base ‘B’, was listen then for the break time. established at Whalers Bay, Listen carefully for the Deception Island. The base at INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA announcements for your group Port Lockroy was operational ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT to be called. Please do not until 1962 and then fell into CRUISING: approach deck 2 until your disrepair. Since its restoration group is called in 1996 by the Antarctic  Consider to cancel if you Heritage Trust (AHT), Base ‘A’ have hip- or back problems, Approx. 20:30 Camping on Goudier Island at Port it might get bumpy! We hope to arrange a camp at Lockroy has become one of Pleneau. Kindly listen to the the most visited sites in  You might get wet as the announcement for when to go Antarctica. It now operates as ashore. Please eat your dinner suits are not 100% a museum, kept as it was in waterproof! early. the 1950s, as well as a post office and souvenir shop with  Under the suit we 21:00 Polhøgda / Chinese all proceeds going to the AHT, Information about the landing recommend to wear 1 or 2 a non-profit organization layers (long woollen tomorrow. dedicated to conserving this underwear and a fleece). and other historical huts in 21:00 Framheim / English Antarctica.  Please take with you: sun Information about the landing blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. tomorrow. The Lemaire Channel was first sighted by Eduard Dallman in 21:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch  Protect your camera and 1873 and then charted and binoculars of spray water Informationen über unsere traversed by Adrien de (backpack or waterproof Anlandung Morgen. Gerlache in 1898. He named it bag). for Charles Lemaire, a fellow Belgian who explored the Congo for King Leopold III. Given the right weather, this eleven kilometer-long (seven mile) and 1.6 kilometer-wide We would like to inform you that all (one mile) channel can be stated times and activities are strikingly beautiful. The steep changeable due to weather cliffs and glaciers of Booth conditions, or other circum-stances out of our control. We kindly remind Island to one side mirror the you to take care walking around on opposite shores of the the ship while at sea. Especially Antarctic Peninsula. When venturing out on deck, mind the signs protected from the wind, the for warning of wet and slippery. Be The region we will sail in today aware the doors toward the outer clear waters offer an decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be was extensively explored by extraordinary reflection of the the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste potentially dangerous in windy mountains in the water; there conditions. While walking inside, hold Etienne Auguste Charcot in can appear to be four different on to railings but not in door frames. 1908-1910. He explored more sets nudging each other. than 1990 km (1240 miles) of Navigation of the channel is previously unknown coastline. dependent upon ice conditions During his first expedition but one doesn’t need to travel aboard the vessel Français in Please turn the page.

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PROGRAM THURSDAY, 12.01.2017 – DANCO ISLAND & MELCHIORS

06:45 Campers Collection Approx. 10:45 We hope to and then boat group 4 and so do a landing at Danco on. Please listen then for the Today we plan to have one Island. We aim to give break time. Listen carefully for final long landing on Danco everyone an hour and a half the announcements for your Island and then we will sail on shore, so that for your last group to be called. Please do north through The Melchior landing you have plenty of not approach deck 2 until your Islands. We will have two time to spread out, sit quietly group is called. kayak group and one Polar- and soak up Antarctica. Cirkleboat group. Please After landing we will ship check the lists on deck 4. 10:15 PolarCirkleboat cruise near The Melchior Cruise. Please meet on deck Islands, in waters where we We are pleased to offer two 2 to dress in the regatta suits. often find whales. Wrap up talks as we sail towards our Please listen to the and head out on deck to join landing. announcements for exact us in the search. timings. You will go ashore for the landing after the cruise. 21:00 Join us for a quiz in We will call you after the last the Panorama Lounge. Get 09:30 Framheim / English boat group (group 3). together in teams of 4 – 6 Lecture: Francis prepares you passengers and test your for the Drake Passage with a 10:15 Kayak Group A meet in knowledge about Antarctica. talk on the evolution, ecology reception. The winning team gets free and behavior of Seabirds. drinks at the bar! Kayak group B: You will go 09:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch onshore first in your normal 22.00 The Famous FRAM Lecture: Smoke under water? landings clothes and then Crew show. Not only do they - Einführung in den marinen return to the ship to prepare cook, drive boats, and keep Vulkanismus by Regina for your kayaking adventure. the engines running…but they Gehmlich will entertain you too! We begin our landing by

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So far, only our intrepid campers have visited Danco Island, so we thought we should offer everyone a chance to enjoy this landing. Danco Island is named for the Belgian Physicist Emile Danco, a member of Adrian de

Gerlache’s Belgica expedition to this region in 1898.

This expedition was the first to INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA spend the winter in Antarctica, ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT after their ship became CRUISING: trapped in the ice. Danco died of unknown causes during  Consider to cancel if you expedition. The island has a have hip- or back problems, rocky northern shore with a it might get bumpy! gently inclining snow slope. It is one of the few landings  You might get wet as the were we can safely spread suits are not 100% out. So we will use out flags waterproof! and cones to mark a safe perimeter in which you can  Under the suit we We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are wander, sit, photo, write, recommend to wear 1 or 2 contemplate and so on. changeable due to weather layers (long woollen conditions, or other underwear and a fleece). circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care  Please take with you: sun walking around on the ship while

blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. at sea. Especially venturing out on deck, mind the signs for

 Protect your camera and warning of wet and slippery. Be binoculars of spray water aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be (backpack or waterproof potentially dangerous in windy bag). conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door frames.

DAILY PROGRAM FRIDAY, 13.01.2017 – AT SEA

Bridge Visits 15:00 Norwegian Waffles, Human eyes did not see 09:00 Group A served on deck 7, Panorama Antarctica until 1820 yet it had 09:30 Group B Lounge been known to exist since the 10:00 Group C time of Aristotle. Although it 16:30 Framheim / English has been on our maps and 11:00 Framheim / English Shackleton – a Life in Poetry, charts and satellite photos for Lecture: Francis prepares you a talk by Jim Mayer, based on less than two hundred years, it for the Drake Passage with a his book. survived in our imaginations talk on the Evolution, Ecology for two thousand years before and Behavior of Seabirds. 16:30 Polhøgda / Chinese: that. Among all the mythical Yibo reprises one of our and magical places of the 11:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch lectures in Chinese. world Atlantis, El Dorado, the Lecture: Smoke under water? Fountain of Youth - Antarctica - Einführung in den marinen 18:00 & 20:00 Framheim is the only one we have found Vulkanismus by Regina English, Film: Shackleton with so far. Its very existence is a Kenneth Branagh, part 1, ca. proof of magic. The history of 14:30 Framheim / English 100 min Antarctica is however one of Lecture: Smoke under water? resource rape; first the seals – An introduction to marine 18:00 & 20:00 Polhøgda / and then the whales. Will there vulcanism by Regina. Deutsch, Film: Shackleton – be a third era? We encourage Verschollen im ewigen Eis, you to keep Antarctica a part 14:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Teil 1, ca. 100 min of your life always. The people Lecture: Francis bereitet Sie who visit Antarctica may be auf die Drake Passage vor mit 21:30 We invite you for a the continent’s best hope for einem Vortrag über Question and Answer session its pristine survival, as they Meeresvögel. with the Captain and some of become advocates and MV Fram’s officers in the emissaries. Panorama Lounge on Deck 7.

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

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PROGRAM SATURDAY, 14.01.2017 – AT SEA

09:30 Framheim / English 14:30 Framheim / English Hurtigruten Foundation, lots Elena presents a two-part talk, Francis will speak about include a chart of this voyage, firstly about her experiences Climate Change: Science, and the flag of the ship. living 14 months in an Policy and Sections 18:00 Framheim / English: Antarctic station and secondly Film: Shackleton with Kenneth about how you can contribute 14:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Branagh, part 2, ca. 100 min to science in Antarctica Elena presents a two-part talk, through Citizen Science. firstly about her experiences 18:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch, living 14 months in an Film: Shackleton – 09:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Antarctic station and secondly Verschollen im ewigen Eis, Francis spricht über den about how you can contribute Teil 2, ca. 100 min Klimawechsel: Klima – woher to science in Antarctica kommt es – wohin geht es? through Citizen Science. From 19:30 Framheim: We show the slide presentation of 11:00 Framheim / English 16:00 Polhøgda / English Dominic’s pictures of this Stian presents a talk about his Atle talks about his kayak expedition cruise! You can journey into nature adventures. order the DVD at the reception until 22:00. 11.00 Polhøgda / Chinese 17:00 Captain’s farewell Yibo welcomes the Chinese cocktail, Panorama Lounge End of Voyage guests for a talk with Jóhann’s. deck 7. Our captain would like arrangements to take the opportunity to 12:00 Polhøgda / English: thank you for travelling with Passports / patches: During Film: Shackleton with Kenneth us, and invite you for a cocktail the day you may collect your in the bar. Welcome! Branagh, part 2, ca. 100 min, passports from reception. repeated at 18:00 Please hand in your boat Afterwards we present the group patch at the same time. 14:00 The Campers meet in MV Fram Charity Auction! The If you would like to keep your Polhøgda, deck 4. auction supports the patch as a souvenir you may,

and a small charge will be decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be added to your account potentially dangerous in windy (99Nok). conditions. While walking inside, A separate page with hold on to railings but not in door disembarkation information will frames. be delivered to you cabin today.

You have received a tipping form in your cabin, if you wish to give gratuities to the crew, please fill it out and deliver the form to reception. Thank you!

Kindly note that the first bill you receive is a preliminary one, for you to check.

Cruise accounts will be settled after 22:00 with the credit card information given, you will be charged automatically and a receipt is send to your email address. After 22:00 you can pay cash or with your credit card. Please ensure to read the disembarkation information printed and distributed to your cabin. The flight and transfer lists are posted on the information board near the reception.

Any questions with regards to disembarkation, please contact the expedition desk.

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