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Daily Program DAILY PROGRAM FRIDAY, 27.01.2017 – EMBARKATION USHUAIA RESTAURANT TIMINGS TEA,COFFEE & COOKIES 15:00 – 17:30 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 BUFFET DINNER 18:00 – 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 15:00 Check-In 21:30 Captain’s Cocktails. Our Most of the time we will use Check in is on deck 3 and 4. Captain Ole-Johan our PolarCirkle boats for Suites can check in on deck 7. Andreassen would like to landings. For organizational welcome you on board and purposes we are going to 15:00-17:30 Medical Forms present his officers and the separate you into groups of Please deliver your medical Expedition Team. At the same approximately 30 passengers. forms to the Doctor in the time we'll give some On deck 4 by the conference lobby on deck 4. information regarding our rooms, you find an overview of voyage, in the Panorama the groups. Have a look which 15:00-17:30 If you would like Lounge, deck 7. group you are in. to learn more about our voyage then why not come IMPORTANT: Times can change. We would and meet some of the Daily Programs will be like to inform you that all Expedition Team members in delivered to your cabin each stated times and activities are the Panorama Lounge on deck evening. changeable due to weather 7? and ice conditions, or other Expedition Jackets and circumstances out of our Approx. 17:30 Mandatory Rubber Boots will be available control. Safety Drill Please follow the for collection over the coming instructions over the PA days. We kindly remind you to take care walking around on the ship while at system. The drill will end sea. Especially venturing out on outside, please bring a warm We may have the opportunity deck, mind the signs for warning of jacket. to stamp your passport at an wet and slippery decks. Be aware the Antarctic base during our doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, MS FRAM Departs from voyage. If you would NOT like 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous Ushuaia around 18:00 tonight. a stamp, please see in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in Reception, Deck 4. door frames. DAILY PROGRAM SATURDAY, 28.01.2017 – 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 nd 20:00 2 seating 08:30 – 09:30 Bird watching, In accordance with 17:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch on deck 7 aft. Our guides will International Association of Antarktische Zyklen von be available for any questions Antarctica Tour Operators Miguel Rubio-Godoy on birds, why not join and see (IAATO) protocols, Antarctic if you can spot an albatross? Treaty regulations, and 18:15 & 20:00 Film: Norwegian law, the IAATO Framheim / English: 09:30 Framheim / English briefings are mandatory for South - Ernest Shackletons The Mighty White: Antarctica - all passengers. Please Glorious Epic of the Antarctic, rock hard facts by Steffen arrange to be present if you 80 min, old footage. Biersack like to land in Antarctica. 18:15 & 20:00 Film 14:15 Framheim / Deutsch Polhøgda / Deutsch: 09:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Teilnahmepflichtige IAATO- The Endurance - Verschollen Vogelparadies von Miguel Veranstaltung Bootsgruppe im Packeis, 90 min. Rubio-Godoy 5 und 6. Bridge visit; If you wish to visit 11:00 Framheim / English 15:30 Framheim / English the bridge, please sign up at Information about our optional Mandatory IAATO briefing the Expedition Desk. -Sign up boat group 1, 2 and 3 list are divided in languages. extra activities. Timings for bridge visits will be 15:30 Polhølga / English given in the daily program. 11:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch Mandatory IAATO boat group Informationen zu den 4, 7 and 8. If you wish to have dinner with optionalen Aktivitäten. some members of the 17:00 Framheim / English expedition team one evening 12:00 – 14:00 You are Seabirds of the Southern during the expedition, please welcome to pick up your Oceans - Masters of the Sea sign up at the Expedition Expedition Jacket on deck 2. by Helga Kristiansen Desk. An invitation with date and time will be sent to your Please turn page. cabin the day before. If we and other microorganisms, hypothetical land until Captain cannot accommodate all and tundra vegetation. Belief James Cook's ships, HMS requests we will do a drawing in the existence of a Terra Resolution and Adventure, of names. Australis – a vast continent in crossed the Antarctic Circle on the far south of the globe to 17 January 1773, in December Antarctica, on average, is the "balance" the northern lands of 1773 and again in January coldest, driest, and windiest Europe, Asia and North Africa 1774. continent, and has the highest – has existed since the times average elevation of all the of Ptolemy (1st century AD), who suggested the idea to We would like to inform you that continents. Antarctica is all stated times and activities are preserve the symmetry of all considered a desert, with changeable due to weather annual precipitation of only known landmasses in the conditions, or other circum- 200 mm (8 inches) along the world. Depictions of a large stances out of our control. We coast and far less inland. southern landmass were kindly remind you to take care There are no permanent common in maps such as the walking around on the ship while human residents, but early 16th century Turkish Piri at sea. Especially venturing out anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 Reis map. Even in the late on deck, mind the signs for people reside throughout the 17th century, after explorers warning of wet and slippery. Be year at the research stations had found that South America aware the doors toward the outer and Australia were not part of decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be scattered across the continent. potentially dangerous in windy the fabled "Antarctica", Only cold-adapted plants and conditions. While walking inside, animals survive there, geographers believed that the hold on to railings but not in door including penguins, seals, continent was much larger frames. nematodes, tardigrades, than its actual size. European mites, many types of algae maps continued to show this Please turn page. DAILY PROGRAM SUNDAY, 29.01.2017 – 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 BUFFET 18:00-21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 Bridge visit private rubber boots - please boat group patch, which you Meeting point elevators,deck 6 come down to deck 2 and attach to your Expedition 09:00 Group C English have them placed on the rack jacket. You can do this at 09:30 Group D English on deck 2. the vacuum station. 10:30 Group Scandinavian 11:00 Group A German 11:00 Booking deadline for 14:30 Framheim / English extra activities, post-cruise Mandatory briefing for 09:00 Polhøgda / Das große excursions and transfers in everyone who has signed up Weiß - Antarctica's Geo- Ushuaia and Buenos Aires. for PolarCircle Cruising. Fakten von Steffen Biersack 11:00 Framheim / English 14:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch From 09:00 and onwards: We Penguins; a day in the rookery Informationsveranstaltung für will call you by your boat group by Miguel Gironés alle, die sich für die Polar- to collect your "Rubber boots - Cirkel Tour angemeldet Arctic Muck Boots" on deck 2 12:00 Polhøgda: Mandatory haben. and 3. The boat group lists are briefing for everyone who has to be found on the info board signed up for kayaking. Afternoon: We hope to do a on deck 4. If you are on the landing at Yankee Harbour bridge when your group is 12:30 – 14:30 Vacuuming for being called, you can get your backpacks and other things We begin our landing by boots before or afterwords. you will bring ashore in calling boat group 1,2,3,4 Please listen for the Antarctica taken from your Please listen then for the announcements. home continent. You are able break time. After the break, we to use the vacuum system on welcome groups 5,6,7,8. You can try on a pair, and we deck 2,3 and 5- crew is Listen carefully for the show you down to the boot available to assist you. announcements for your group room where you can set them to be called. Please do not on the rack sorted by cabin Please sign the IAATO approach deck 2 until your numbers for the duration of the biosecurity declaration group is called. Rubber boots voyage. If you brought your afterwards and collect your are mandatory footwear. Please turn page. Return time to the ship will be numbering around 4000 pairs. wildlife, other than using a given ashore Nearby Glacier Bluff offers a thermometer, there is no way dramatic backdrop and on a to know when you are 21:15 Framheim/English: clear day, one can see across crossing it; the seas do not get Information about the landing the McFarlane Strait to rougher and the water color tomorrow. Livingston and Half Moon does not change. The waters islands. The gravel beach of Antarctica circle the 21:15 Polhøgda/Deutsch: affords easy walking but can continent in the world’s biggest Informationen über unsere often be windy and cold.
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