Government of & the South Sandwich Islands

Annual Tourism and Visitor Report

2016 – 2017

Version 1.0 June 2017

Government Officer South Georgia

Steve Waugh 2017 Government of South Georgia Government Officer & the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia

Tel: +44 1223 22 1781 Telex (Sat C): 580 492 348018 email: [email protected]

(30 June 2017)

SUMMARY ANNUAL TOURISM REPORT – SEASON 2016-17

INTRODUCTION

1. This report covers the period from July 2016 to June 20171. This year proved to be another record year for passengers with a total of 8,946 tourists arriving on 68 cruise ships (also 68 last year - the record of 70 cruise ship visits was 2008-09). This year there was an increase of 159 passengers. 5 visits were cancelled –2 of the planned visits by NG Orion due to engine failure and dry-dock repair and 1 by Ocean Diamond due to poor weather, and 2 of the Akademik (OneOcean) vessels at the start of the season.

2. Over this season 15,377 individuals visited South Georgia, this figure includes cruise ship passengers, crew and expedition staff and yachts. There was a total of 8,946 cruise ship passengers, 890 expedition staff (average ratio 1:10), 5,459 crew and 11 others (observers etc).

Part 1: CRUISE SHIPS

Cruise Ship Visit Summary. A total of 23 (equal to 2016-17) different cruise ships made 68 (also 68 in 2015-16) separate visits to South Georgia during the 2016 - 2017 season. The Polar Pioneer made the most trips with 5. Most other ships visited on 2 to 4 separate occasions. Seabourn Quest was (as per 2016-17) the largest passenger carrying ship this season with 435 passengers. Table 1 summarises the cruise ship activity since 1999.

Table 1. Summary of cruise ship voyages 1998/99 to 2016/17 Season Voyages Passengers Staff Crew Others Total 1999/2000 34 2,704 (53.1%) 353 (6.9%) 2,014 (39.6%) 18 (0.4%) 5,089 2000/2001 27 2,100 (54.7%) 309 (8.0%) 1,428 (37.2%) 3 (0.1%) 3,840 2001/2002 33 2,385 (52.3%) 302 (6.6%) 1,858 (40.7%) 16 (0.4%) 4,561 2002/2003 45 3,606 (53.2%) 441 (6.5%) 2,718 (40.1%) 18 (0.3%) 6,783 2003/2004 42 3,584 (53.6%) 402 (6.0%) 2,685 (40.1%) 20 (0.3%) 6,691 2004/2005 40 3,765 (57.6%) 377 (5.8%) 2,374 (36.3%) 17 (0.3%) 6,533 2005/2006 49 5,463 (56.9%) 490 (5.1%) 3,608 (37.6%) 35 (0.4%) 9,596 2006/2007 51 5,214 (58.2%) 472 (5.3%) 3,261 (36.4%) 16 (0.2%) 8,963 2007/2008 62 8,068 (57.1%) 693 (4.9%) 5,346 (37.8%) 30 (0.2%) 14,137 2008/2009 70 7,700 (56.1%) 792 (5.8%) 5,181 (37.8%) 45 (0.3%) 13,718 2009/2010 63 7,214 (57.8%) 711 (5.7%) 4,535 (36.4%) 13 (0.1%) 12,473 2010/2011 46 5,354 (59.4%) 493 (5.5%) 3,164 (35.1%) 3 (0.0%) 9,014 2011/2012 51 5,831 (58.4%) 578 (5.8%) 3,569 (35.7%) 6 (0.1%) 9,984 2012/2013 51 5,792 (58.0%) 612 (6.1%) 3,552 (35.6%) 24 (0.2%) 9,980 2013/2014 55 7,024 (59.6%) 667 (5.7%) 4,080 (34.6%) 21 (0.2%) 11,792 2014/2015 65 8,142 (58.9%) 827 (6.0%) 4,837 (35.0%) 23 (0.2%) 13,829

1 Data from TRAFISH covers the period up to 27 March however, the tourist season is due to finish 01 April with Plancius. 4 PVR’s are outstanding so numbers of pax, staff, crew and nationalities will change in the final report. Page 1

2015/2016 68 8,787 (57.6%) 915 (6.0%) 5,549 (36.4%) 13 (0.1%) 15,264 2016/2017 68 8,946 (58.5%) 890 (5.9%) 5,459 (36%) 11 (0.1%) 15,303

Cruise Ship Voyage and Passenger Number Trends. There were no new vessels this season. Sea Explorer 1 arrived with a new name - Hebridean Sky. There was one new tourist operator Antarctic XXI who chartered Ocean Nova for their trip. A summary of vessel visits and passenger numbers is at Figure 1.

Figure 1. Cruise ship Visit and Passenger Numbers 1998 to 2017. Cruise Ship Visit and Passenger Numbers Trends South Georgia 1998/99 to 2016/17

80 10,000 8,787 8,946 9,000 70 8,068 8,142 7,700 8,000 60 7,214 7,024 5,831 7,000 50 5,463 6,000 5,792 40 5,214 5,354 5,000 3,606 4,000 30 Cruise Cruise Ship Visit 2,704 3,584 3,765

3,000 Numbers Passenger 20 2,180 2,385 2,000 2,100 10 1,000

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Tourist Season Voyages Passengers Linear (Passengers)

Passengers and Cruise Ship Visit. The breakdown of total passengers numbers by cruise ship visits is shown at Figure 2, with Le Lyrial and the Fram both totalling the most passengers over the season. The number of separate visits by each cruise ship is shown at Figure 3, Polar Pioneer with the most separate visits at 5.

Figure 2. Total Passenger Numbers by Cruise Ship Season 2016-17 Total Passenger Numbers By Cruise Ship For Season 2016-17

1000 881 820 642 717 800 555 576 600 422 419 435 349 393 346 373 393 336 297 243 400 155 156 224 200 80 64 70 0 … … … … … Passenger Numbers Passenger FRAM SILVER SILVER OCEAN OCEAN BREMEN USHUAIA LE LYRIAL LE ORTELIUS PLANCIUS LE SOLEAL SEA SPIRIT SEA NG ORION LE BOREAL AKADEMIK AKADEMIK SEABOURN HANSEATIC EXPEDITION OCEAN NOVA NG EXPLORER BARK EUROPA HEBRIDEAN SKY HEBRIDEAN POLAR PIONEER AKADEMIK IOFFE AKADEMIK

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Figure 3. Total Cruise Ship Visits Season 2016-17 Cruise Ship Visits For Season 2016-17 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1

Number of Visits 1 0 … FRAM BREMEN USHUAIA LE LYRIAL LE ORTELIUS PLANCIUS LE SOLEAL SEA SPIRIT SEA NG ORION LE BOREAL HANSEATIC EXPEDITION OCEAN NOVA NG EXPLORER BARK EUROPA HEBRIDEAN SKY HEBRIDEAN POLAR PIONEER AKADEMIK IOFFE AKADEMIK SILVER EXPLORER OCEAN DIAMOND SEABOURN QUEST AKADEMIK SERGEY SERGEY AKADEMIK OCEAN ENDEAVOUR Cruies Ships

Passengers. For this reporting period there were a total of 62 passenger nationalities. The top ten nationalities represent approximately 89% of the overall passenger numbers as shown in Figure 4 below with all remaining nationalities adding to 11% of the total. The majority of passengers came from English speaking countries. A Comparison of 2016-17 season passengers by nationality to 2015-16 season is show below. (The passenger nationality figures presented below do not include the data from the final 4 PVRs NG Explorer x 2, Hebridean Sky x 2 and Plancius).

Figure 4. Cruise ship passengers Other, 997, 11% by nationality 2016-17 New Zealand, 119, 1% Netherlands, 153, 2% United States, Canada, 300, 3% 2,279, 26% China, 511, 6%

Switzerland, 586, 7% Germany, 1,113, 13%

France, 673, 8%

United Kingdom, Australia, 921, 11% 1,049, 12%

Figure 4. Cruise Ship Passenger Nationality Composition Season 2016-17

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Austria, 134, 1% Figure 5. Cruise Ship Passenger Netherlands, 176, other, 998, 11% Nationality 2015-16 2% Canada, 243, 3% United States, 1,886, France, 500, 6% 21%

Switzerland, 716, 8%

Germany, 1,494, 17% China, 797, 9% Australia, 844, 9% United Kingdom, 1,211, 13%

Figure 5. Cruise Ship Passenger Nationality Composition Season 2015-16.

Expedition Staff. There was a total of 906 expedition staff (915 in year 15/16) from a total of 42 countries (41 in year 15/16) with an overall ratio of approximately one staff member to each ten passengers. The nationality breakdown was broadly the same as last year. The majority of staff were American with 188 staff (21%), followed by Canada with 124 staff (14%), Germany with 108 staff (12%), United Kingdom with 103 staff (11%), Australia with 60 staff (7%) and France with 50 members of staff (5%).

Cruise ship Crew. There were 5,598 members of crew from 73 nationalities. As in the previous years of the crew composition the majority were from the Philippines with 2,908 (52%).

Cruise ship landing sites prior to Arrival in South Georgia. Of the 68 cruise ship visits, 52 landed in the Falkland Islands prior to coming to South Georgia (previous season 50). 11 came directly from the Antarctic, either the Antarctic Peninsula or associated islands. The remainder from Montevideo and Ushuaia.

Cruise ship landing sites Post South Georgia. - Of the 68 cruise ship visits 47 went on for their next landing within Antarctica or associated islands, 14 ships went on to land in the Falklands, 3 vessels went to Tristan da Cunha, 1 to Ushuaia, 2 to Montevideo, and one to Capetown.

Passenger numbers on visiting vessels. Those ships visiting with between 50 and 200 passengers on-board represents 91% of the total over the season, cruise ships with a greater number of passengers than 200 was 9%. Table 2 shows the breakdown for season 2016-17.

Table 2. Vessel Characteristics According to Passenger Numbers 2016-2017 Cruise Ship Visit Number of Ship Total number of Comments Passenger Numbers Visits Pax over the season < 50 6 262 Polar Pioneer, Bark Europa and Plancius 50 - 100 15 1,157 101 - 150 24 2,867 151 - 200 17 3,111 201-300 5 1,118 3 by Fram, 2 by Le Soleal 301-400 >401 1 435 Seabourn Quest Total 68 8,950

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Activities Undertaken. A total of 56 different sites were visited by cruise ships during the 2016-2017 tourist season. The variety of activities undertaken at these sites and passenger numbers is summarised at Table 3. Boat landings by Zodiac recorded the highest activity number with 37,843 passengers landing by small boat. This number rises to 43,892 when crew, staff, others are included.

Table 3. Activities undertaken by cruise ship passengers at South Georgia 2016 - 2017 (Figures in brackets 2015 - 2016 season) Total No. of times activity Total no. of sites Total no. of passengers Activity carried out at all sites activity carried out carrying out activity

Boat Landing 32 (31) 37,834 (35,281) 373 (365) Extended Walk 24 (19) 4,638 (4,256) 94 (83) Kayaking 24 (20) 929 (552) 66 (59) Scuba diving 11 (10) 53 (32) 16 (17)

Small Boat Landings. In descending order of numbers of passengers landed, the 12 most popular locations by landings reported for this year and shown below in Table 4, and show comparison to the previous two seasons. Number of separate visits is shown in brackets.

Table 4: Summary of the most popular small boat landing sites for seasons 2014/5 to 2016/7. All visitor numbers, with ship numbers in parenthesis. Visitor Site 2016/17 2015/16 2014/15

Grytviken 9,688 (65) 8,297 (68) 7,119 (65)

St Andrews Bay 5,563 (40) 5,223 (56) 3,050 (30))

Salisbury Plain 5,420 (42) 5,223 (56) 5,583 (47

Gold Harbour 5,031 (43) 4,535 (53) 4,950 (49)

Stromness 4,909 (45) 3,735 (42) 3,496 (41)

Prion Island 2,737 (30) 2,886 (44) 2,596 (32)

Fortuna Bay – Whistle Cove 2,502 (19) 2,307 (22) 1,046 (14)

Fortuna Bay (Anchorage Bay) 1,307 (11) 967 (8) 655 (5)

Jason Harbour 856 (8) 583 (9 1,168 (13)

Godthul 774 (10) 542 (10) 361 (7)

Fortuna Bay 574 (11) 626 (8) 1,276 (14)

Cooper Bay – Macaronis 233 (5) 514 (10) 639 (9)

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Extended Walks. Extended Walks (EW) were undertaken on 88 occasions (83 in the previous season) at 24 sites (33 in the previous season) see Table 5. The Shackleton Walk remains popular with 19 separate visits (also 19 in the previous season) with a total of 828 passenger visitors (858 in the previous season). Maiviken Hike has attracted interest again this year with 11 separate visits and 497 passengers completing this walk.

Table 5: Extended walk sites 2016-2017 Number of visits Total number of Site in season 2016-17 visitors Fortuna Bay - Shackleton Hike 19 828 Salisbury Plain 7 609 Maiviken Hike 11 497 Fortuna Bay (Whistle Cove) 3 359 Fortuna Bay 7 343 and KEP 9 322 Maiviken 5 278 - Ridge Hike 2 142 St Andrews Bay 3 126 Rosita Harbour 3 119 – Head Hike 2 106 Gold Harbour 3 102 Rookery Bay 2 75 Cobblers Bay - Macaroni’s 2 53 Cobblers Cove Rookery Hike 1 48 Leith / Hike 2 42 Elsehul Inner bay 1 39 1 27 1 27 Right Whale Bay 1 18 King Haakon - Peggoty Bluff 1 16 Ocean Harbour Hike 2 9

Total 88 4185

The Shackleton walk still remains the most popular extended walk. The trend for access for the Shackleton EW is shown in Figure x with 828 (9.3% of overall visitor numbers) passengers taking part this season.

Figure 6. Shackleton Walk Trends 1999 - 2016

1600 40 1486 1502 1400 1341 35 1200 1196 30 1000 976 946 25 936 620 858 800 775 846 781 828 20 600 15 400 419 10 400 336 200 252 245 5 0 0 Number of EW Conducted EW of Number Totalofnumber Passengers

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Kayaking. Short kayaking trips remains popular with Hercules Bay (171) and Grytviken (166) being the most popular sites.

Table 6: Kayaking activity season 2011/12 to 2015/16 Year Total of number of short Number of kayak trips taken Sites 2016/17 929 24 2015/16 708 21 2014/15 599 20 2013/14 612 23 2012/13 462 29 2011/12 209 15

Diving. Scuba diving was undertaken by passengers, staff and crew at 11 sites with a total of 53 individuals taking part in this activity.

Cruise Ship Visit Sites of Particular Interest

Prion Island. The trend for numbers of passengers and visits has fallen this season. The total number of small boat landings this season has fell from 38 to 30, while the total number of passengers fell by 381 (Figure x). When including crew and expedition staff this figure is 2,737 (last season 3,174).

Figure 7. Prion Island Cruise Ship Passengers Trends 1998-2017 40 Boardwalk open 2739 3000 35 2596 2500 30 2188 2280 1846 207820342034 2063 25 2063 1875 2358 2000 20 1424 1500 15 912 973 705 928 1000 10 949 5 479 500 Number of Landings of Number 0 0

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Number of Landings Total Number of Passengers Total Numberof Cruise ShipPassengers

Grytviken and King Edward Point. All cruise ships visited Grytviken, this is part of the customs and tourism clearance process. The first cruise ship of the season was the Sea spirit on the 27 October 2016 with 101 passengers, and the last ship, Plancius, on the 2nd April 2017 with 46 passengers (although failed to land due to weather conditions).

Grytviken Church. The church at Grytviken was used on 7 separate occasions for specific organised events ranging from a wedding to Christmas carol services, music renditions and a service of remembrance. 2 requests had to be turned down owing to re-decoration works at the time.

Post Office. The Post Office was located on board 8 cruise ships this season (13 last season). The ‘Enduring Eye ‘ Hurley Exhibition which includes original lantern slides on loan from the Royal Geographical Society remained open this year in the former Slop chest (new Post Office building).

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Medical Assistance. During this season there were 5 recorded events that required medical support, 2 of these resulted in medical assistance from King Edward Point Station (in the previous year it was 9). Support from KEP was declined in 2 cases and not available in another.

General Cruise Ship Matters

Cruise Ship Bird Strikes. The Post Visit Report forms contain a section requiring the Permit Holder to provide any detail of bird strikes/bird collision with the ship. There were 107 recorded incidences of birdstrikes this season (last season21) from the 15 vessels which reported them. The comments received during this season from cruise ships are detail below (Table 7): Additionally 1 King Penguin was hit by a zodiac propeller and killed.

Table 7. Incidental bird mortality vessel strikes by date 2016-2017.

Date Weather conditions and Collision information. Number and types of location if noted bird 29/10/2016 Cape Rosa - Foggy 2 Wilson's storm petrel released alive 30/10/2016 Right Whale Bay - Snow 5 Diving Petrels released alive 30/10/2016 Peggoty Bluff -Foggy 2 Diving Petrel - alive 31/10/2016 South of Shag Rocks - 1 Common Diving Petrel - alive Snow 31/10/2016 Approach to South 7 Diving Petrels - released alive Georgia 01/11/2016 Fortuna Bay - Rain 8 Diving Petrels , 1 Antarctic Prion alive 02/11/2016 Prince Olav Hbr. - Foggy 2 Wilson's storm petrels, 2 Common petrels all released alive 07/11/2016 Transit to Fortuna Bay – 20 Diving Petrel released alive Snow at 10m/sec 2 Giants petrels, one dead, one released alive 17/11/2016 Hercules Bay – Windy, 2 Diving Petrel released alive fog 22/11/2016 St. Andrews to Grytviken Wilson Storm Petrel – dead Gold Harbour 1 Diving Petrel released alive 24/11/2016 60nm NNE of 4 Prions released alive – calm, foggy 25/11/2016 - snow 2 Diving Petrel released alive 09/12/2016 Grytviken Cove 1 Diving Petrel released alive 25/12/2016 Cumberland Bay- fair 2 South Georgia Diving Petrel - dead 3 South Georgia Diving Petrel – released alive 1 Wilson Storm Petrel - released alive 5 Antarctic Prion - released alive 2 Blue Petrel - released alive 25/12/2016 Cumberland Bay- snow 3 Prions released alive 26/12/2016 Grytviken- snow 2 Prions released alive 24/01/2017 At sea 2 Diving petrels 1 Wilsons Storm Petrel 1 Grey-backed Storm Petrel 1 White- Chinned Petrel 25/01/2017 1 Wilsons Storm Petrel - All released alive 02/02/2017 Prion Island - Fog 1 Diving Petrel released alive 05/02/2017 Gold Harbour 4 Diving petrels - dead 06/02/2017 Fortuna –windy, 2 Blue Petrel alive, overcast 1 Blue Petrel dead 1 Diving Petrel dead 01/03/2017 Grytviken/King Edward 1 Diving Petrel released alive. Pt. 3 Prion released alive 03/03/2017 Stromness – windy1 1 Storm Petrel- released alive 1 Antarctic Prion- released alive 20 alive Storm / Antarctic Petrels 04/03/2017 Moltke Harbour 3 Antarctic Prion - released alive

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Wind and snow poor 9 Diving petrels - released alive visibility 1 Storm Petrel- released alive 05/03/2017 Grytviken 1 Diving petrel released alive 05/03/2017 Snow 3 Kerguelen petrel - released alive 1 Antarctic Prion- released alive 06/03/2017 Stromness -snow 1 Diving Petrel released alive 10/03/2017 At sea 1 Skua - released alive 1 Diving Petrel released alive 16/03/2017 King Edward Cove 1 Prion released alive 21/03/2017 Gold harbour 1 Prion released alive

Seals. This season there were no reported incidences of passengers receiving fur seal bites. There were 2 recorded incidents of fur seal entanglements. One fur seal was found entangled in green fishing net at Godthul. The landing party removed the net themselves. Another was found at Prion Island with plastic rope around its neck. It was also recorded that at Prion Island 6-7 dead pups were sighted on 18 January along with an equal number with an ‘eye disease’. One Fur Seal was killed by a zodiac propeller at Possession Bay.

Biosecurity Failures. 16 vessels, yachts included, were recorded as having some kind of biosecurity failure. Most are recorded as being 1-4 failures per vessel. These included, mud on the soles of boots and plant material, seeds or grass stuck to Velcro fasteners. The numbers of passengers checked per vessel ranged from 10-100%. Unsatisfactory cleaning of boot soles was the most common problem. The second most common problem was organic material entwined in Velcro fastenings

Expedition Leader (EL) Briefings. This season 16 new ELs were briefed at KEP (previous year it was 11).

New Operators, Vessels and Observers. There was one new operator this season Antarctic XX1 who chartered the cruise ship Ocean Nova. A Government observer embarked to monitor expedition staff procedures and all was found to be satisfactory.

Post Visit Reporting. Of the 68 cruise ship visits this year all have returned Post Visit Reports. All were completed to a good standard. Several were late, being returned after the Annual Report writing has begun.

Part 2: YACHTS Yacht Visits. During this season there was a total of 8 yacht visits by 6 different yachts see Table 2. The total of individuals visiting South Georgia on yachts was 74 individuals (season 2015-16 it was 160).

Table 8. Yacht Visits for the Period 01 July 2016 to 30 June 2017. Visit Vessel Expedition Leader Company Arrived Pax Staff Crew Others Total 4849 Pelagic Australis Roberts, David Pelagic Expeditions Ltd 16/09/2016 6 3 4 13 4851 Pelagic Hazell, Alec Pelagic Expeditions Ltd 30/09/2016 4 2 2 8 4857 Hans Hansson Poncet, Dion 02/10/2016 7 1 3 11 4861 Selma Expeditions Krzysztof Jasica Selma Expeditions 17/10/2016 8 4 12 4870 Pelagic Australis Roberts, David Pelagic Expeditions Ltd 27/10/2016 7 3 10 4867 Santa Maria Australis Hollies, Daniel Sim Expeditions Ltd 28/10/2016 4 2 6 4894 Selma Expeditions Kuzniar Piotr Selma Expeditions 25/11/2016 8 4 12 4916 Yaghan Martensen Arne 06/01/2017 2 2 Total 8 Visits 44 6 24 0 74

Yacht Landing Sites. Yachts conducted beach landings at a total of 21 different sites during this season (29 last season).

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Part 3: EXPEDITIONS

There were a total of 5 planned expeditions this season, one was abandoned due to poor weather. (Table 9). Support was provided by Yachts Selma, Pelagic, Pelagic Australis and the cruise ships Polar Pioneer and NG Orion. Table 9. Expeditions to South Georgia season 2016-2017 Dates Description of Expedition Support Vessel Expedition Pax Numbers 14 Sep to 12 Oct 2016 Salvesen Range Mountaineering Pelagic Australis 6 passengers Expedition 3 Staff 4 Crew 30 Sept to 18 Oct 2016 Crean Family Shackleton Traverse Pelagic 4 passengers 2 Staff 2 Crew 17 Oct to 28 Oct 2016 Selma Expeditions Shackleton Selma 10 passengers Traverse(abandoned due to poor 2 Crew weather) 30 Oct to 31 Oct 2016 Lindblad Shackleton crossing NG Orion 11 persons 18 Mar to 19 Mar 2017 2017 Aurora Shackleton crossing Polar Pioneer 6 persons

Part 4: OTHER VESSEL VISITS

Visits from other vessels are detailed below.

Table 10. Other visiting vessels to South Georgia 2016-2017 Vessel Name Description Dates Comments

HMS Clyde UK Military - 12 Oct to 15 Oct South Atlantic Patrol Royal Navy 2016 HMS Protector UK Military - 28 April to 28 Apr Harbour and jetty survey Royal Navy 2016 RRS James Clark Ross British Antarctic 29 Oct to 30 Oct Supply Survey 2016 HMS Protector UK Military - 5 Nov to 7 Nov 2016 Visit Royal Navy RRS British Antarctic 29 Nov to 29 Nov Supply Survey 2016 RRS Ernest Shackleton British Antarctic 3 Dec to 4 Dec 2016 Supply Survey RRS James Clark Ross British Antarctic 24 Dec to 24 Dec Load cargo Survey 2016 RFA Gold Rover UK Military - 7 Jan to 7 Jan 2017 Visit Royal Navy HMS Portland UK Military - 8 Jan to 9 Jan 2017 Visit Royal Navy HMS Enterprise UK Military - 25 Jan to 25 Jan 2017 Visit Royal Navy HMS Enterprise UK Military - 26 Jan to 27 Jan 2017 Visit Royal Navy Agulhas II South Africa 27 Jan to 27 Jan 2017 Returning from Antarctica research vessel routine visit Meteor German research 2 Feb to 2 Feb 2017 Benthic Survey vessel Meteor German research 3 Feb to 3 Feb 2017 Benthic Survey vessel Treshnikov ‘ACE’ research 2 Mar to 2 Mar 2017 Survey vessel RRS Ernest Shackleton British Antarctic 12 Mar to 16 Mar Load Cargo Survey 2017 Page 10

Annex 1 – Total Cruise ship Passenger, Crew and Staff Nationality season 2016-17

Nationality Passengers Staff Crew Others Total TOTALS: 8950 906 5598 11 15465 United States 2,444 -27.31% 188 -20.75% 34 -0.61% 1 -9.09% 2,667 -17.25% Germany 1,115 -12.46% 108 -11.92% 346 -6.18% 0 0.00% 1,569 -10.15% United Kingdom 1,078 -12.04% 103 -11.37% 68 -1.21% 5 -45.45% 1,254 -8.11% Australia 935 -10.45% 60 -6.62% 10 -0.18% 0 0.00% 1,005 -6.50% France 676 -7.55% 50 -5.52% 481 -8.59% 1 -9.09% 1,208 -7.81% Switzerland 591 -6.60% 12 -1.32% 6 -0.11% 0 0.00% 609 -3.94% China 513 -5.73% 7 -0.77% 6 -0.11% 0 0.00% 526 -3.40% Canada 304 -3.40% 124 -13.69% 13 -0.23% 0 0.00% 441 -2.85% Netherlands 155 -1.73% 22 -2.43% 36 -0.64% 0 0.00% 213 -1.38% New Zealand 123 -1.37% 43 -4.75% 7 -0.13% 0 0.00% 173 -1.12% Taiwan 104 -1.16% 0 0.00% 5 -0.09% 0 0.00% 109 -0.70% Austria 99 -1.11% 3 -0.33% 42 -0.75% 0 0.00% 144 -0.93% Belgium 91 -1.02% 2 -0.22% 7 -0.13% 0 0.00% 100 -0.65% Norway 82 -0.92% 19 -2.10% 35 -0.63% 0 0.00% 136 -0.88% Israel 64 -0.72% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 64 -0.41% Japan 64 -0.72% 2 -0.22% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 67 -0.43% Sweden 58 -0.65% 15 -1.66% 28 -0.50% 0 0.00% 101 -0.65% South Africa 45 -0.50% 22 -2.43% 41 -0.73% 0 0.00% 108 -0.70% Italy 36 -0.40% 0 0.00% 44 -0.79% 0 0.00% 80 -0.52% Denmark 28 -0.31% 7 -0.77% 3 -0.05% 0 0.00% 38 -0.25% Ireland 28 -0.31% 13 -1.43% 6 -0.11% 0 0.00% 47 -0.30% India 25 -0.28% 0 0.00% 69 -1.23% 0 0.00% 94 -0.61% Singapore 24 -0.27% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 24 -0.16% Argentina 23 -0.26% 40 -4.42% 24 -0.43% 2 -18.18% 89 -0.58% Russia 23 -0.26% 9 -0.99% 364 -6.50% 0 0.00% 396 -2.56% Thailand 20 -0.22% 0 0.00% 3 -0.05% 0 0.00% 23 -0.15% Spain 19 -0.21% 4 -0.44% 15 -0.27% 0 0.00% 38 -0.25% Brazil 17 -0.19% 3 -0.33% 12 -0.21% 1 -9.09% 33 -0.21% Poland 14 -0.16% 2 -0.22% 20 -0.36% 0 0.00% 36 -0.23% Estonia 13 -0.15% 0 0.00% 5 -0.09% 0 0.00% 18 -0.12% Hong Kong 12 -0.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 12 -0.08% Swaziland 11 -0.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 11 -0.07% Chile 10 -0.11% 8 -0.88% 23 -0.41% 0 0.00% 41 -0.27% Finland 10 -0.11% 3 -0.33% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 15 -0.10% Romania 8 -0.09% 2 -0.22% 165 -2.95% 0 0.00% 175 -1.13% Czech Republic 7 -0.08% 3 -0.33% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 12 -0.08% Ecuador 7 -0.08% 2 -0.22% 4 -0.07% 0 0.00% 13 -0.08% Turkey 7 -0.08% 0 0.00% 6 -0.11% 0 0.00% 13 -0.08% Malaysia 5 -0.06% 0 0.00% 4 -0.07% 0 0.00% 9 -0.06% Mexico 5 -0.06% 2 -0.22% 5 -0.09% 0 0.00% 12 -0.08% Indonesia 4 -0.04% 0 0.00% 204 -3.64% 0 0.00% 208 -1.34% Monaco 4 -0.04% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 4 -0.03% Saudi Arabia 4 -0.04% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 4 -0.03%

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Uruguay 4 -0.04% 1 -0.11% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 6 -0.04% Croatia 3 -0.03% 0 0.00% 34 -0.61% 0 0.00% 37 -0.24% Hungary 3 -0.03% 1 -0.11% 17 -0.30% 0 0.00% 21 -0.14% Philippines 3 -0.03% 3 -0.33% 2,908 -51.95% 0 0.00% 2,914 -18.84% United Arab 3 -0.03% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3 -0.02% Emirates Barbados 2 -0.02% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Cyprus 2 -0.02% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Guatemala 2 -0.02% 1 -0.11% 25 -0.45% 0 0.00% 28 -0.18% Korea, Republic of 2 -0.02% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Latvia 2 -0.02% 1 -0.11% 8 -0.14% 0 0.00% 11 -0.07% Malta 2 -0.02% 0 0.00% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 4 -0.03% Mauritius 2 -0.02% 0 0.00% 6 -0.11% 0 0.00% 8 -0.05% Portugal 2 -0.02% 2 -0.22% 16 -0.29% 0 0.00% 20 -0.13% Ukraine 2 -0.02% 2 -0.22% 209 -3.73% 0 0.00% 213 -1.38% Bahamas 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 3 -0.02% Belarus 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Brunei 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 -0.01% Darussalam Bulgaria 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 26 -0.46% 0 0.00% 27 -0.17% Colombia 1 -0.01% 2 -0.22% 7 -0.13% 0 0.00% 10 -0.06% Guyana 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 9 -0.16% 0 0.00% 10 -0.06% Iceland 1 -0.01% 2 -0.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3 -0.02% Lithuania 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Luxembourg 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 -0.01% Malawi 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 -0.01% Serbia 1 -0.01% 0 0.00% 13 -0.23% 0 0.00% 14 -0.09% Andorra 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Bosnia 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Cambodia 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 1 -0.01% Costa Rica 0 0.00% 4 -0.44% 5 -0.09% 0 0.00% 9 -0.06% Egypt 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 1 -0.01% El Salvador 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 7 -0.13% 1 -9.09% 8 -0.05% Greece 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 21 -0.38% 0 0.00% 21 -0.14% Honduras 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 19 -0.34% 0 0.00% 19 -0.12% Jamaica 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 10 -0.18% 0 0.00% 10 -0.06% Macedonia 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Mauritania 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 4 -0.07% 0 0.00% 4 -0.03% Montenegro 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 6 -0.11% 0 0.00% 6 -0.04% Myanmar 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 1 -0.01% Nepal 0 0.00% 2 -0.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Nicaragua 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 49 -0.88% 0 0.00% 49 -0.32% Panama 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 17 -0.30% 0 0.00% 17 -0.11% Peru 0 0.00% 2 -0.22% 11 -0.20% 0 0.00% 13 -0.08% Cameroon 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 -0.02% 0 0.00% 1 -0.01% Seychelles 0 0.00% 2 -0.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01% Slovakia 0 0.00% 3 -0.33% 3 -0.05% 0 0.00% 6 -0.04% Venezuela 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3 -0.05% 0 0.00% 3 -0.02% Zimbabwe 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 -0.04% 0 0.00% 2 -0.01%

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Annex 2 – Yacht visits

Passenger Nationality Summary for the season 2016-2017 Nationality Passengers Staff Crew Others Total TOTALS: 44 6 0 0 74 United 16 4 5 0 25 Kingdom Poland 13 0 7 0 20 Germany 5 0 2 0 7 Ireland 5 0 0 0 5 Sweden 2 0 2 0 4 France 1 0 1 0 2 New 1 0 0 0 1 Zealand United 1 1 1 0 3 States Austria 0 0 2 0 2 Czech 0 0 1 0 1 Republic Norway 0 1 0 0 1 South Africa 0 0 3 0 3

Steve Waugh Government Officer King Edward Point South Georgia

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