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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 system. The drill will end walking around on the ship while at 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.

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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 20:00 2nd 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

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PROGRAM SUNDAY, 29.01.2017 – AT SEA

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. Be ocean current at an estimated Anlandung Morgen. careful of extensive moss rate of 150 million cubic beds and nesting skuas and meters per second. Once 22:00 Panorama Lounge, deck fur seals. Be sure to keep your carried far into the northern 7. We invite you to our famous eyes on the spit during the oceans, the dense polar water FRAM - fashion show, where polarCirkel boat ride in; it is a has a cooling effect on tropical some of the officers and the favourite spot for elephant and temperate waters and is expedition team will show a seals to haul out. important to the oceans’ selection of the clothing we balance. have in the onboard shop on The Antarctic Convergence is deck 4. the where the warmer waters We would like to inform you of the north meet the colder, that all stated times and A natural haven created by a denser, less saline waters of activities are changeable due one kilometre-long (0.6 mile), the south. As the colder water to weather conditions, or other curved spit; Yankee Harbour sinks beneath the warmer, a circumstances out of our on Greenwich Island is so well mixing occurs that brings control. We kindly remind you situated as to appear man- nutrients to the surface. Found to take care walking around on made. Named for the between 40ºS and the ship while at sea. American sealers that Especially venturing out on frequented here in the 1820’s, 60ºS, the convergence is an deck, mind the signs for remnants of the era linger and ever-changing frontier. It is the warning of wet and slippery. a sealer’s trypot can be seen biological limit of the Antarctic Be aware the doors toward the on the beach. Elephant, ecosystem and anywhere outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 Weddell, and fur seals are south of the convergence is can be potentially dangerous common sights on the beach known as the Antarctic Ocean. in windy conditions. While and the main attraction is a While there is often a low fog walking inside, hold on to terraced gentoo colony in the area and an increase in railings but not in door frames

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PROGRAM MONDAY, 30.01.2017 – BROWN BLUFF

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

Early morning: We will sail into are mandatory footwear. to use the vacuum system on the Antarctic Sound to reach Return time to the ship will be deck 3 & 5. our destination Brown Bluff, given ashore. where we hope to do a long This afternoon we will landing. ca. 8:30: Kayakers group B shipcruise in the beautiful please listen to the Antarctic Sound. 08:00 PolarCirkleboat Cruise announcements for you to be group A. Please meet on deck called. We meet outside 16:00 Panorama Lounge 2 to dress in the regatta suits. Polhøgda conference room. Nordenskiöld with Helga Please listen to the Kristiansen announcements for exact Ca 10:30 PolarCirkleboat timings. You will go ashore for Cruise group B. Please meet 17:30 Framheim/English: the landing after the cruise, on deck 2 to dress in the Information about the landing you will then be called regatta suits. Please listen to tomorrow. specially. the announcements for exact timings. 17:30 Polhøgda/Deutsch: 08:30 We hope to do a landing Informationen über unsere at Brown Bluff Ca 12:00 PolarCirkleboat Anlandung Morgen. Cruise group C. Please meet We begin our landing by on deck 2 to dress in the Information only for extra calling Boat cruise group B regatta suits. Please listen to activity: Polar Cirkel Boat and C, then boat group 2 and the announcements for exact Cruising: 3. Please listen then for the timings. break time. After the break, we Consider to cancel If you have welcome groups 4,5,6,7,8,1. 14:00-15:00 Vacuuming for hip- or back problems, it might Listen carefully for the backpacks and other things get bumpy! announcements for your group you will bring ashore in to be called. Please do not Antarctica taken from your You might get wet as the suits approach deck 2 until your home continent. You are able are not 100% waterproof! group is called. Rubber boots

Under the suit we recommend during Otto Nordenskjöld’s to wear 1 or 2 layers (long 1903 Swedish South Polar woollen underwear and a Expedition, captained by fleece). Norwegian legend Carl Anton Larsen. Huge tabular icebergs Please take with you: sun from the ice shelves in the blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. Weddell Sea are brought here in the Weddell’s gyre-like Protect your camera and currents. Known as “Iceberg binoculars of spray water Alley” by expedition staff, it is (backpack or waterproof bag). an astonishing assortment of The descriptively named floating ice both large and Brown Bluff lies on the coast small. Although the 48 of the Antarctic Sound at the kilometre-long (30 mile) sound end of the Tabarin Peninsula. is often difficult to penetrate, it Curiously, the Tabarin offers the most impressive Peninsula was named after array of ice that we are likely to Operation Tabarin, the British see on our journey. The area is Naval expedition to establish home to a high concentration of territory on the Antarctic Adélie penguins with estimates Peninsula. Adélie penguins, as high as 500 000 nesting gentoo penguins, kelp gulls, pairs. Emperor penguins are an and Cape petrels all breed extremely rare sight in the here under an ominous, 745 Antarctic Peninsula area. If you metre-high (2450 feet) cliff. An do see one, it will likely be even, stony beach with many floating by you on an ice floe in rocky breaks often offers easy the Antarctic Sound. landings. Later in the season, there are so many Adélies We would like to inform you lounging on the beach that it that all stated times and may be impossible to land activities are changeable due without disturbing them. Be to weather conditions, or other aware that your landing site circumstances out of our may change over the course control. We kindly remind you of landing operations due to to take care walking around on tides. Make sure to look for the ship while at sea. leopard seals patrolling the Especially venturing out on water off the beach. deck, mind the signs for Experienced staff will tell you warning of wet and slippery. Be that the best way to aware the doors toward the experience an Adélie rookery outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 is to sit quietly and just can be potentially dangerous in observe nature’s greatest windy conditions. While walking comedians at work., kelp gulls, inside, hold on to railings but blue-eyed shags also may be not in door frames. seen, but breeding is not confirmed.

The Antarctic Sound lies between the very tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and D’Urville, Joinville, and Dundee Islands. The sound was not named for its location but rather for the ship Antarctic

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PROGRAM TUESDAY, 31.01.2017 – WHALERS BAY & TELEFON BAY

OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:00 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:00 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU, seating by boatgroups 18:30 1st seating, boatgroup RESTAURANT, DECK 4 4,5,6,7, free seating

20:15 2nd seating boatgroup 8,1,2,3, free seating

Ca.07:15: We are entering approach deck 2 until your We begin our landing by Neptuns Below group is called. Rubber boots calling boat group 4,5,6,7. are mandatory footwear. Please listen then for the 08:00 Geology PolarCirkleboat Return time to the ship will be break time. After the break, we Cruise group A. Please meet given ashore. welcome groups 8,1,2,3. on deck 2 to dress in the Listen carefully for the regatta suits. Please listen to Ca 10:30 Geology announcements for your group the announcements for exact PolarCirkleboat Cruise group to be called. Please do not timings. You will go ashore for B. Please meet on deck 2 to approach deck 2 until your the landing after the cruise, dress in the regatta suits. group is called. Rubber boots you will then be called Please listen to the are mandatory footwear. specially. announcements for exact Return time to the ship will be timings. given ashore 08:30 We hope to do a landing at Whalers Bay Afternoon: We hope to do a From 14:00 Film landing at Telefon Bay Framheim/English: We begin our landing by Penguins Spy in the huddle, calling Geology Polar By arrival in Telefon Bay. PolarCirkleboat Cruise group episode 1, The Journey, 60 Cirkleboat cruise group B, min. Shown on repeat until followed by boat group 3,4,5. C. Please meet on deck 2 to dress in the regatta suits. 18:30 Please listen then for the break time. After the break, we Please listen to the announcements for exact Ab 14:00 Film welcome groups 6,7,8,1,2. Polhøgda/German: Listen carefully for the timings. You will go ashore for the landing after the cruise, Wale, Die Giganten der announcements for your group Meere, 40 min Shown on to be called. Please do not you will then be called specially. repeat until 18:30.

begin to appear off the 19:45 Framheim/English: starboard side of the ship. Information about the landing tomorrow. Whalers Bay was home to factory whaling ships as early 19:45 Polhøgda/Deutsch: as 1905 and a shore station Informationen über unsere named Hektor from 1912-1931 Anlandung Morgen. as well as British Base B built in 1941. Both the base and 22:00 Today we would like to station were finally destroyed invite you for a Fruit and Ice by a mudslide during the carving show with our galley crew 1967-69 eruption along with a in the Panorama Lounge on Deck Chilean base farther down 7. Port Foster in Pendulum Cove. Today there are two stations in Information only for extra operation, Spain’s Gabriel de activity: Geology Polar Cirkel Castilla and Argentina’s Boat Cruising: Decepción. Consider to cancel If you have hip- or back problems, it might Telefon Bay on the get bumpy! northwestern side of Port Foster is named for a salvage You might get wet as the suits vessel that moored here in are not 100% waterproof! 1909, awaiting repairs. From a wide, flat beach, a black ash Under the suit we recommend apron slopes gently upward to wear 1 or 2 layers (long and inland for about 985 feet woollen underwear and a (300 meters) t the steep face fleece). of the cinder-covered volcanic glacier and a crater from one Please take with you: sun of Deception's recent blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. eruptions. The rising slope of the black, cinder-covered Protect your camera and volcanic rim can be walked binoculars of spray water uphill to spectacular view (backpack or waterproof bag). point.

A portion of the wall of the We would like to inform you volcanic caldera of Deception that all stated times and Island has collapsed, flooding activities are changeable due the interior and creating an to weather conditions, or other amazing natural harbour circumstances out of our known as Port Foster. Access control. We kindly remind you to the interior is through the to take care walking around on 200 metre-wide (660 feet) the ship while at sea. entrance known as Neptune’s Especially venturing out on Bellows. There is a rock in the deck, mind the signs for middle just under the water warning of wet and slippery. and the area to one side is Be aware the doors toward the foul. Therefore the ship will outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 have merely 100 metres (330 can be potentially dangerous feet) with which to navigate. in windy conditions. While Once safely through the walking inside, hold on to Bellows, Whalers Bay will railings but not in door frames.

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PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 01.02.2017– WILHELMINA BAY & CUVERVILLE

From approx. 07:30 We will We begin our landing by From 15:00 Film arrive at Wilhelmina Bay calling Boat cruise E, campers Framheim/English: where we hope to see more A and then boat group 5,6. Frozen planet, episode 1, The whales! We will do Please listen then for the Poles, 50 min. Shown on shipcruising with MV Fram break time. After the break, we repeat until 19:00 welcome groups 7,8,1,2,3,4. 11:00 Framheim: Mandatory Listen carefully for the Ab 15:00 Film briefing for everyone who has announcements for your group Polhøgda/German: signed up for camping. Also to be called. Please do not Eisige Welten, Episode 1 Die passengers on the waiting list approach deck 2 until your Pole der Erde, 50 min Shown should be present at the group is called. Rubber boots on repeat until 19:00. meeting are mandatory footwear. Return time to the ship will be Evening / Campers: We hope Afternoon: We hope to do a given ashore. to arrange a camp at Danco landing at Cuverville Island. Island. Kindly listen to the Kayakers group B please announcement for when to go On arrival in Cuverville Island: listen to the announcements ashore. Please eat your dinner PolarCirkelboat Cruise group for you to be called. We meet at 18:00. D. Please meet on deck 2 to outside Polhøgda conference dress in the regatta suits. room. 21:00 Framheim/English: Please listen to the Information about the landing announcements for exact PolarCirkelboat Cruise group tomorrow. timings. You will go ashore for E please listen to the the landing after the cruise, announcements for you to be 21:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch: you will then be called called. Please meet on deck 2 Informationen über unsere specially. to dress in the regatta suits. Anlandung Morgen. You will do your normal

landing before the cruise starts.

Information only for extra The Errera Channel is a seen, but breeding is not activity: Polar Cirkel Boat scenic, narrow waterway confirmed. Cruising: between Rongé Island and the Arctowski Peninsula on the We would like to inform you Consider to cancel If you have mainland. It was discovered by that all stated times and hip- or back problems, it might the Belgica expedition and activities are changeable due get bumpy! named for Professor Léo to weather conditions, or other Errera of the University of circumstances out of our You might get wet as the suits Brussels, a benefactor of the control. We kindly remind you are not 100% waterproof! voyage. Errera is home to to take care walking around on Danco and Cuverville Islands. the ship while at sea. Under the suit we recommend Especially venturing out on to wear 1 or 2 layers (long Cuverville Island supports one deck, mind the signs for woollen underwear and a warning of wet and slippery. fleece). of the largest known gentoo penguin colonies. This can be Be aware the doors toward the Please take with you: sun apparent from miles away outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. given the right wind direction. can be potentially dangerous Early in the season, snow in windy conditions. While Protect your camera and cover impedes but doesn’t walking inside, hold on to binoculars of spray water stop penguins accessing their railings but not in door frames. (backpack or waterproof bag). nests and an intricate network of “penguin highways” is Wilhelmina Bay: The carved into the snow. The mountains and high glacier shallow waters between walls of the Antarctic Cuverville and Rongé islands Peninsula around Wilhelmina often trap and ground Bay ensure that there is plenty icebergs. This makes for of dramatic scenery, superb ship-cruising through interesting ice in the water, the channel. Up from the and the possibility of rookery at Cuverville, steep witnessing a calving. cliffs lead to the island top. Enterprise Island in These cliffs should be avoided Wilhelmina Bay has the so as not to damage the partially submerged wreck of mosses and lichens that grow the whaling ship Guvernøren there. The cliffs are also home near Foyn Harbour. The 3433 to skuas that are vigorous in ton ship caught fire in 1915 defending their well-hidden and was run aground in order nests. to rescue men and supplies. There were no fatalities. The Danco is a one-mile (1.6km) bay is a choice feeding place long island lies in the southern for whales and therefore was a part of the Errera Channel, off choice hunting ground for the western coast of Graham whalers. As Shackleton was Land. Danco Island was first marching his men across the chartered by Gerlache and is ice of the Weddell Sea, his named for the geophysicist final destination was to be who died during the Belgica Wilhelmina Bay where he expedition of 1897-99. Gentoo anticipated whalers could be penguins are confirmed found for rescue. As well as breeders and there is a the possibility of whales, minimum breeding population Weddell, crabeater, and of approximately 1700 pairs. leopard seals can be found Snow algae may bloom. here and Antarctic terns nest Snowy sheathbills, kelp gulls, on some of the bare cliff faces. blue-eyed shags also may be

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PROGRAM THURSDAY, 02.02.2017 – LEMAIRE CHANNEL & VERNADSKY STATION

Morning: We will try to go Return time to the ship will be first expedition aboard the vessel through the scenic Lemaire given ashore. Français in 1903-1905 he Channel. Recommendation is to discovered Port Lockroy and stay on the outer decks when we Kayakers group D please listen to Booth Island. sail through this scenic channel. the announcements for you to be called. We meet outside Polhøgda At the northern end of the On arrival in Vernadsky: conference room. Lemaire Channel are two tall, PolarCirkelboat Cruise group F. rounded, and often snowcapped Please meet on deck 2 to dress in 21:00 Framheim/English: peaks at Cape Renard: Una’s the regatta suits. Please listen to Information about the landing Peaks, also known to the announcements for exact tomorrow. Antarcticans as Una’s Tits. They timings. You will go ashore for were so named by members of the landing after the cruise, you 21:00 Polhøgda/Deutsch: the Falkland Islands will then be called specially. Informationen über unsere Dependencies Survey (today’s Anlandung Morgen. British Antarctic Survey) in Afternoon: We hope to do a honor of a secretary in the landing at Vernadsky station 21:45 Panorama Lounge Governor’s Office in Stanley, Nordenskiöld with Helga capital of the Falkland Islands. We begin our landing by calling Kristiansen She was the last woman they Polar Cirkel boat cruisers G, would see before sailing south. followed by boat group 7,8,1. Please listen then for the break The region where we will be The Lemaire Channel was first time. After the break, we cruising tomorrow morning was sighted by Eduard Dallman in welcome groups 2,3,4,5,6. Listen extensively explored by the 1873 and then charted and carefully for the announcements Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Etienne traversed by Adrien de Gerlache for your group to be called. Auguste Charcot in 1908-1910. in 1898. He named it for Charles Please do not approach deck 2 He explored more than 1990 km Lemaire, a fellow Belgian who until your group is called. Rubber (1240 miles) of previously explored the Congo for King boots are mandatory footwear. unknown coastline. During his Leopold III. Given the right

weather, this eleven kilometre- claimant nations to offer a long (seven mile) and 1.6 postal service. kilometre-wide (one mile) channel can be strikingly We would like to inform you that beautiful. The steep cliffs and all stated times and activities are glaciers of Booth Island to one changeable due to weather side mirror the opposite shores of conditions, or other the Antarctic Peninsula. When circumstances out of our control. protected from the wind, the clear We kindly remind you to take waters offer an extraordinary care walking around on the ship reflection of the mountains in the while at sea. Especially venturing water; there can appear to be four out on deck, mind the signs for different sets nudging each other. warning of wet and slippery. Be So many camera clicks can be aware the doors toward the outer heard during a traverse of the decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be Lemaire Channel that it is known potentially dangerous in windy by expedition staff as the “Kodak conditions. While walking inside, Crack”. Navigation of the channel hold on to railings but not in door is dependent upon ice conditions frames. but one doesn’t need to travel all the way down to experience its beauty.

Vernadsky; In 1947 the British built Wordie House, or Base ‘F’ on Winter Island in the Argentine Islands on the site of a hut built by the earlier British Graham Land Expedition. In 1954 they closed the base and began building what would become the modern station of Faraday on nearby Galindez Island. The men at Faraday Station co-discovered the Antarctic ozone hole along with Halley Station in the Weddell Sea. Despite their hard work, base staff still found time to build the nicest pub south of 60º, complete with pool table and dart board. In 1996, the British gave Faraday to the newly independent Ukraine who renamed the station Vernadsky. The Ukrainians have been diligent in keeping the British traditions and memorabilia alive including the upkeep of the original base on Winter Island. Visitors to Vernadsky are given a tour of the facilities and offered locally made vodka at the station pub. Souvenirs of T-shirts and postcards may be available and Ukraine is one of the few non-

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PROGRAM FRIDAY, 03.02.2017 – DETAILLE ISLAND

20:00 2nd seating boatgroup, 4,5,6,7, free seating

We are going to be true 20 years living and working in On arrival at Detaille Island explorers! Please listen Antarctica by Rachel Morgan PolarCirkelboat Cruise group carefully to the H. Please meet on deck 2 to announcements for activities. 10:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch dress in the regatta suits. It is difficult to estimate landing places and even arrival times Ice - Portrait of a Surprising Please listen to the for this area as everything Material by Steffen Biersack announcements for exact depends on weather, wind and timings. You will go ashore for ice conditions! Keep in mind: 11:30 We hope King Neptun the landing after the cruise, Flexibility is a key word for our will come. Meet us outside for you will then be called operation in this area the Antarctic Circle baptism on specially.

deck 5 09:00 Framheim / English 20 years living and working in Afternoon: We hope to do a landing at Detaille Island. Antarctica by Rachel Morgan 12:15 Framheim If you haven’t been to our We begin our landing by Safety briefing for Polar Cirkel 09:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch calling boat group 8,1,2,3. Pinguine; seltsame Vögel aus Boat cruising yet, please come Please listen then for the Gondwana von Miguel Rubio- to our meeting, if you would break time. After the break, we Godoy like to go crusing. It is still welcome groups 4,5,6,7. possible to sign up for Polar Listen carefully for the 10:30 Framheim / English with Cirkel Boat cruising. announcements for your group German translation to be called. Please do not approach deck 2 until your

Antarctic Circle 66°33 S 66°40 W Detaille Island 66°52 S 66°47 W

group is called. Rubber boots Under the suit we recommend are mandatory footwear. to wear 1 or 2 layers (long One has to admit- the Britons Return time to the ship will be woollen underwear and a were not too imaginative when given ashore. fleece). it comes to naming their stations! Here on Detaille From 14:00 Film Please take with you: sun Island we find the former Framheim/English: blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. Station W, in operation from Penguins Spy in the huddle, February 21st, 1956 until episode 2, First steps, 60 min. Protect your camera and March 31st, 1959. The reason Shown on repeat until 18:30 binoculars of spray water that the bases were (backpack or waterproof bag). designated by letters is that Ab 14:00 Film The Antarctic Circle is one of when the base building was Polhøgda/German: the five major circles of brought South on the ship, Eis und Meer, Polar und latitude that mark maps of the although the region the base Meeresforschung am Alfred- Earth. It lies at latitude 66° 33′ would be placed was known, Wegener-Institut, 30 min 40″ south of the equator. The the exact location was not. Shown on repeat until 18:30. area south of the Antarctic The personnel at Detaille Circle is known as the Island carried out surveying, 19:30 Framheim/English: Antarctic, and the zone geology, and meteorology. But Information about the landing immediately to the north is unreliable sea ice rendered tomorrow. called the Southern the base not entirely suitable Temperate Zone. The and it was evacuated after 19:30 Polhøgda/Deutsch: equivalent line of latitude in only three years. The activities Informationen über unsere the northern hemisphere is the were transferred to Base ‘Y’ Anlandung Morgen. Arctic Circle. Along the on Horseshoe Island. Antarctic Circle there is one 22:00 Today we would like to We would like to inform you invite you to learn more about day each year during which the sun does not set, about that all stated times and Ropes & Knots with our ABs activities are changeable due and the Chief Officer. Meet us December 22 (the summer solstice, first day of summer in to weather conditions, or other in the Panorama Lounge on circumstances out of our Deck 7. the Southern Hemisphere). Similarly, the sun does not rise control. We kindly remind you to take care walking around on Information only for extra above the horizon on approximately June 21 (the the ship while at sea. activity: Polar Cirkel Boat Especially venturing out on Cruising: winter solstice). The number of days without sunset or sunrise deck, mind the signs for Consider to cancel If you have increases with proximity to the warning of wet and slippery. hip- or back problems, it might South Pole. At the Pole there Be aware the doors toward the get bumpy! are six months of continuous outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 darkness (about March 21 to can be potentially dangerous You might get wet as the suits September 23) followed by six in windy conditions. While are not 100% waterproof! months of daylight (September walking inside, hold on to 23 to March 21). railings but not in door frames.

Antarctic Circle 66°33 S 66°40 W Detaille Island 66°52 S 66°47 W

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PROGRAM SATURDAY, 04.02.2017 – HORSESHOE ISLAND

We are going to be true Warm bleiben; Anpassungen to be called. Please do not explorers! Please listen fürs Leben im Kühlschrank approach deck 2 until your carefully to the von Miguel Rubio-Godoy group is called. Rubber boots announcements for activities. are mandatory footwear.

It is difficult to estimate landing Return time to the ship will be places and even arrival times Afternoon: We hope to do a given ashore. for this area as everything landing at Horseshoe Island. depends on weather, wind and From 14:00 Film ice conditions! Keep in mind: At Horseshoe Island they have Framheim/English: Flexibility is a key word for our reopened the post office after Penguins Spy in the huddle, operation in this area. 57 years. They only sell episode 3, Growing up, 60 stamps, no postcards. You will min. Shown on repeat until 09:30 Framheim / English have to get your postcards 18:30 Web of Life from Kristin from our ships shop. 1 stamp costs 1$ (or 1Euro or 1£). US Heggland Ab 14:00 Film cash, exact change is Polhøgda/German: preferred. British pounds and Meet the real penguins, 50 09:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch euros will also be accepted. min Shown on repeat until Eis – Portrait eines We will also stamp the 18:30. (German soundtrack) erstaunlichen Materials passports. Evening / Campers group B: 11:00 Framheim / English We begin our landing by We hope to arrange a camp Top predators off the Antarctic calling the Hikers and this evening. Kindly listen to Campers first, then boat shores by Miguel Rodríguez- the announcement for when to group 1,2,3,4. Please listen go ashore. Please eat your Gironés then for the break time. After dinner at 18:00. the break, we welcome groups 11:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch 5,6,7,8. Listen carefully for the announcements for your group

Horseshoe Island 67°50 S 67°12 W

21:30 Today we would like to Pas Island, Horseshoe Island station contains almost all of invite you to join our and Lagotellie Island. its original contents, fixtures expedition photographer and fittings, including kitchen Ashley to talk about how to Horseshoe Island; occupies utensils, stocks of food and take great shots in the Polar most of the entrance of fuel, workshop tools, radio environment. Be sure to bring Square Bay, on the west coast equipment and a diesel your camera and if you like of Grahman Land. It was generator. The excellent bring the best picture you have discovered and named condition and completeness of taken so far so we can see descriptively in 1936-37. both the buildings and your great shots. Meet us in Horseshoe Island (Base Y) is artefacts are of considerable the Panorama Lounge on an important example of a historical significance as Deck 7. mostly unaltered and fully together they provide a very equipped British scientific special "time-capsule" of Well below the Antarctic research station of the 1950s. British life and science in the Circle, the Marguerite Bay was It was established in March Antarctic during the late discovered by Charcot on his 1955 by the Falkland Islands 1950s. 1909 French Antarctic Dependencies Survey as Base Expedition and named for his Y, and was closed in August We would like to inform you second wife. When Charcot 1960. Scientific research that all stated times and married Marguerite in 1907, he carried out at the station was activities are changeable due secured from her the promise topographic survey, geology to weather conditions, or other that she would never object to and meteorology. Extensive circumstances out of our any of his future dreams of survey trips, often covering control. We kindly remind you Antarctic exploration. She later hundreds of miles and lasting to take care walking around on joined him – at least until several months, were the ship while at sea. Punta Arenas in Chile. undertaken from the station Especially venturing out on This extensive bay is situated using dog sledges. The normal deck, mind the signs for on the west side of the occupancy of the station was 4 warning of wet and slippery. Antarctic Peninsula which is to 10 people. The site consists Be aware the doors toward the bounded on the north by of the original main building outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 Adelaide Island and on the (which was extended in 1956 can be potentially dangerous south by Wordie Ice Shelf, to include a sledge workshop in windy conditions. While George VI Sound and and extra bunk space) a walking inside, hold on to Alexander Island. Islands balloon shed, dog pens and an railings but not in door frames. within the bay include Porquoi emergency store. Inside, the

Horseshoe Island 67°50 S 67°12 W

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PROGRAM SUNDAY, 05.02.2017 – STONINGTON

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

20:00 2nd seating

We are going to be true are mandatory footwear. hut served as sleeping explorers! Please listen Return time to the ship will be quarters, while the smaller one carefully to the given ashore. was a generator shed. A cross announcements for activities. on the point commemorates It is difficult to estimate landing Kayakers group E please two Britons who died while places and even arrival times listen to the announcements waiting out a bad storm in a for this area as everything for you to be called. We meet snow-hole during a field trip in depends on weather, wind and outside Polhøgda conference 1966. East Base was built ice conditions! Keep in mind: room. during Richard Byrd’s third Flexibility is a key word for our Antarctica expedition, the US operation in this area. Stonington; Named after the Antarctic Service Expedition of home port of Connecticut 1939-41. The US government Approx. 11:00: We hope to do sealer Nathaniel Palmer, funded a historic preservation a landing at Stonington. Stonington Island is a rocky program at East Base in 1990- Swimming is possible here. island off the west coast of 91. A small display of artefacts We will bring the towels. Graham Land at the eastern has been set up in one of the part of Marguerite Bay. Two three base buildings, marked We begin our landing by abandoned stations, some as a museum. calling boat group,2,3,4,5. 200m apart, are rarely seen by Please listen then for the tourists, but they do get We would like to inform you break time. After the break, we occasional visitors from that all stated times and welcome groups 6,7,8,1. Rothera and San Martin activities are changeable due Listen carefully for the stations. The UK`s Base E, to weather conditions, or other announcements for your group established in 1945-46 and circumstances out of our to be called. Please do not used until 1975, consists of control. We kindly remind you approach deck 2 until your two wooden huts and some to take care walking around on group is called. Rubber boots dog pens. The larger two story the ship while at sea.

Stonington 68°10 S 67°00 W

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

Stonington 68°10 S 67°00 W

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PROGRAM Monday, 06.02.2017 – THE GULLET

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 TEATIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER BUFFET 18:00 – 21:00 BBQ dinner on deck 7

Exploring goes on! Due to the will get as close as we can, heads of Hanusse Bay and the icy nature of this passage, it is and – if ever possible – give it Laubeuf Fjord. It was first impossible to predict timings. an honest try. So be prepared explored by Charcot. Please listen carefully to the to spend all morning outside announcements for activities. and have your camera We would like to inform you What makes our morning batteries charged! that all stated times and destination so incredibly activities are changeable due beautiful, is at the same time If we find a suitable area we to weather conditions, or other the reason for its will launch the small boats and circumstances out of our unpredictablility. We expect to start a boat cruising for control. We kindly remind you travel through enormous everyone, starting with boat to take care walking around on amounts of sea ice and group 3. Please listen for the the ship while at sea. icebergs, and so we cannot announcements. Especially venturing out on give you a precise schedule deck, mind the signs for here. The Gullet is a narrow channel warning of wet and slippery. that separates Adelaide Island Be aware the doors toward the Morning: We will be cruising from the west coast of Graham outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 with FRAM at The Gullet, a Land. The twisting channels can be potentially dangerous precariously narrow passage somehow resemble a in windy conditions. While north of Marguerite Bay. digestive tract and are full of walking inside, hold on to According to the last ice chart ice most of the year. railings but not in door frames. it is highly unlikely to go It separates Hansen and Day through the strait; however, we Islands, and connects the

The Gullet 67°12 S 67°20 W

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PROGRAM TUESDAY, 07.02.2017 – PORT LOCKROY

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 11:30 - 14:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 FILIPINO BUFFET 18:00 - 21:00 RESTAURANT, DECK 4

09:00 Framheim / English Please meet on deck 2 to outside Polhøgda conference Staying warm; adaptations to dress in the regatta suits. room. life in the freezer by Miguel Please listen to the Rubio-Godoy announcements for exact Ca 15:00 PolarCirkelboat timings. You will go ashore for Cruise group J please listen to

the landing after the cruise, the announcements for you to 09:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch you will then be called be called. Please meet on Wie man gut ankommt: Die specially. deck 2 to dress in the regatta Prinzipien der Navigation von suits. You will do your normal Steffen Biersack We begin our landing by landing before the cruise calling Polar Cirkel Boat starts. crusers group J, then boat 10:30 Framheim / English group 4. Due to the fact the 21:00 Panorama Lounge Who owns Antarctica and the island is so small; we can only We would like to invite all our Antarctic treaty by Robert have 60 guests ashore at the happy campers this trip for a Rowland same time. Please listen for gathering in the Panorama the break time. After the Lounge. 10:30 Polhøgda / (English with break, we welcome groups 5,6,7,8,1,2,3. Listen carefully 22:00 Today we would like to German translation) for the announcements for invite you for our Crewshow in Top predators off the Antarctic your group to be called. the Panorama Lounge on shores by Miguel Rodríguez- Please do not approach deck Deck 7. Gironés 2 until your group is called. Rubber boots are mandatory Information only for extra Ca 13:00 We hope to do a footwear. Return time to the activity: Polar Cirkel Boat landing at Port Lockroy. ship will be given ashore. Cruising:

Kayakers group F please Consider to cancel If you have On arrival in Port Lockroy: listen to the announcements hip- or back problems, it might PolarCirkelboat Cruise group i. for you to be called. We meet get bumpy!

You might get wet as the suits in windy conditions. While are not 100% waterproof! walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door frames. Under the suit we recommend to wear 1 or 2 layers (long woollen underwear and a fleece).

Please take with you: sun blocker, scarf, hat and gloves.

Protect your camera and binoculars of spray water (backpack or waterproof bag).

Port Lockroy: during Operation Tabarin in 1944, the British set up two bases in the Peninsula area to establish a permanent presence in the Antarctic. They set up Base ‘A’ at Port Lockroy, a known safe anchorage. Base ‘B’, was established at Whalers Bay, Deception Island. The base at Port Lockroy was operational until 1962 and then fell into disrepair. Since its restoration in 1996 by the Antarctic Heritage Trust (AHT), Base ‘A’ on Goudier Island at Port Lockroy has become one of the most visited sites in Antarctica. It now operates as a museum, kept as it was in the 1950s, as well as a post office and souvenir shop with all proceeds going to the AHT, a non-profit organization dedicated to conserving this and other historical huts in Antarctica.

We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are changeable due to weather conditions, or other circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out on deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. Be aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous

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PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 08.02.2017 – 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 WAFFLES 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

20:00 2nd seating

Bridge visit 14:30 Framheim / English Human eyes did not see Meeting point elevators,deck 6 Jostling for control on the Antarctica until 1820 yet it had 11:00 Group E Antarctic Peninsula by Rachel been known to exist since the 11:30 Group F Morgan time of Aristotle. Although it 17:30 Group B has been on our maps and 14:30 Polhøgda / English with charts and satellite photos for 09:30 Framheim / English German translation less than two hundred years, it Antarctic cycles by Miguel My life in Svalbard - the art of survived in our imaginations Rubio-Godoy living by Helga Kristiansen for two thousand years before that. Among all the mythical 09:30 Polhøgda / German 16:00 Framheim / English and magical places of the Kein Tsunami in Antarctica: How to get there: The world Atlantis, El Dorado, the (Beinahe) alles über Wellen principles of navigation by Fountain of Youth - Antarctica von Steffen Biersack Steffen Biersack is the only one we have found so far. Its very existenceis 10:30 – 12:30 Expedition 16:00 Polhøgda / German proof of magic. The history of desk, deck 4: Return of the Die Erforschung der Terra Antarctica is however one of boat group patches, which you Australis; von Captain Cook resource rape; first the seals an bis heute von Miguel and then the whales. Will there had on you Expedition Jacket. Rubio-Godoy be a third era? We encourage If you would like to keep your you to keep Antarctica a part patch as a souvenir you may, 22:00 Today we would like to of your life always. The people and a charge will be added to invite you for a Question and who visit Antarctica may be your account (99 Nok). Answer round some of MV the continent’s best hope for Frams officers in the its pristine survival, as they Panorama Lounge on Deck 7. become advocates and emissaries.

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

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PROGRAM THURSDAY, 09.02.2017 – AT SEA

09:30 Framheim / English Hurtigruten Foundation, lots you will be charged Exploring Terra Australis; from include a chart of this voyage, automatically and a receipt is Captain Cook to our days by and the flag of the ship. send to your email address. After 22:00 you can pay cash Miguel Rubio-Godoy 14:30 Panorama lounge: or with your credit card Recap with the Expedition 09:30 Polhøgda / English with Team Please ensure to read the German translation Who owns disembarkation information Antarctica and the Antarctic From 19:30 In Framheim hall printed and distributed to your treaty by Robert Rowland there is a continuous slide cabin. The flight and transfer presentation of Ashley pictures lists are posted on the of this expedition! If you are information board near 11:00 Panoram Lounge. interested, you can order the Reception. Any questions with Captains farewell cocktail in DVD at the reception until regard to disembarkation, Panorama Lounge deck 7: 22:00hours! please contact the expedition Captain would like to take the desk. Opportunity to thank you for You have received a tipping travelling with us, and invite form in your cabin, if you wish We would like to inform you you for a cocktail in the bar. to give gratuities to your that all stated times and Welcome! excellent crew, please fill it out activities are changeable due Afterwards we have the MV and deliver the form to to weather conditions, or other Fram Charity Auction! The reception. circumstances out of our auction supports the control. We kindly remind you Hurtigruten Foundation. Kindly note that the first bill to take care walking around on

that you receive is a the ship while at sea. Afterwards we present the preliminary one, for you to Especially venturing out on MV Fram Charity Auction! The check. Cruise accounts will be deck, mind the signs for auction supports the settled after 22:00 with the warning of wet and slippery. credit card information given, Be aware the doors toward the

outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 walking inside, hold on to can be potentially dangerous railings but not in door frames. in windy conditions. While

DAILY PROGRAM FRIDAY, 10.02.2017 – USHUAIA

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

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