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PROGRAM SUNDAY, 15.01.2017 – 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 Andreassen would like to Most of the time we will use Check in is on deck 3 and 4. welcome you on board and our PolarCirkle boats for Suites can check in on deck 7. present his officers and the landings. For organizational Expedition Team. At the same purposes we are going to 15:00-17:30 Medical Forms time we'll give some separate you into groups of Please deliver your medical information regarding our approximately 30 passengers. forms to the Doctor in the voyage, in the Panorama On deck 4 by the conference lobby on deck 4. Lounge, deck 7. rooms, you find an overview of the groups. Have a look which 15:00-17:30 Learn more about IMPORTANT: group you are in. our voyage and meet some of Daily Programs will be the Expedition Team members delivered to your cabin each Times can change. We would in the Panorama Lounge on evening. like to inform you that all deck 7. stated times and activities are Expedition Jackets and changeable due to weather Approx. 17:30 Mandatory Rubber Boots will be available and ice conditions, or other Safety Drill Please follow the for collection over the coming circumstances out of our instructions over the PA days. control. system. The drill will end outside, please bring a warm We may have the opportunity We kindly remind you to take care jacket. to stamp your passport at an walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out on Antarctic base during our deck, mind the signs for warning of MS FRAM Departs from voyage. If you would NOT like wet and slippery decks. Be aware the Ushuaia around 18:00 tonight. a stamp, please see doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, Reception, Deck 4. 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous 21:30 Captain’s Cocktails. Our in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in Captain Ole-Johan door frames.

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PROGRAM MONDAY, 16.01.2017 – 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 DINNER MENU 20:00 2nd seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4

09:00-09:45 Early bird 12:00 – 14:00 You are 18:00 & 20:00 Film: watching, on deck 7 aft. Our welcome to pick up your Framheim / English: guides will be available for any Expedition Jacket on deck 2. South - Ernest Shackleton and questions on birds. the Endurance Expedition, 80 14:30 Framheim / English min, old footage 10:00 Framheim / English Regina gives a talk on the The Antarctic Ecosystem by geological history of 18:00 & 20:00 Film Francis Wiese Antarctica: The stones' tale - a Polhøgda / Deutsch: time trip through Antarctica. The Endurance - Verschollen 10:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch im Packeis, 90 min. Die Erzählung der Steine - 14:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch eine Zeitreise durch die Das antarktische Ôkosystem We will offer Bridge Visits Antarktis by Regina Gehmlich by Francis Wiese during the course of the voyage. We will call you by 11:30 Framheim / English: 16:00 Framheim / English boat groups, so please check Jim presents the plans for our Stian gives Information about which group you are in on voyage & our landings in extra activities. deck 4. Antarctica. 16:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch If you wish to have dinner with 11:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch: Judith presents Information some members of the Pål presents the plans for our about extra activities. expedition team one evening voyage & our landings in during the expedition, please Antarctica. 17:00 Polhøgda / Chinese sign up at the Expedition Yibo & Stian present Desk. An invitation with date 12:15 Polhøgda / Chinese Information about extra and time will be sent to your Yibo & Jim present the plans activities. cabin the day before. If we for our voyage & our landings cannot accommodate all in Antarctica. requests we will do a drawing of names. Please turn page.

Antarctica, on average, is the the far south of the globe to crossed the Antarctic Circle on coldest, driest, and windiest "balance" the northern lands of 17 January 1773, in December continent, and has the highest Europe, Asia and North Africa 1773 and again in January average elevation of all the – has existed since the times 1774. continents. Antarctica is of Ptolemy (1st century AD), considered a desert, with who suggested the idea to annual precipitation of only preserve the symmetry of all We would like to inform you that 200 mm (8 inches) along the known landmasses in the all stated times and activities are coast and far less inland. world. Depictions of a large changeable due to weather There are no permanent southern landmass were conditions, or other circum- human residents, but common in maps such as the stances out of our control. We anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 early 16th century Turkish Piri kindly remind you to take care people reside throughout the Reis map. Even in the late walking around on the ship while year at the research stations 17th century, after explorers at sea. Especially venturing out scattered across the continent. had found that South America on deck, mind the signs for Only cold-adapted plants and and Australia were not part of warning of wet and slippery. Be animals survive there, the fabled "Antarctica", aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be including penguins, seals, geographers believed that the potentially dangerous in windy nematodes, tardigrades, continent was much larger conditions. While walking inside, mites, many types of algae than its actual size. European hold on to railings but not in door and other microorganisms, maps continued to show this frames. and tundra vegetation. Belief hypothetical land until Captain in the existence of a Terra James Cook's ships, HMS Australis – a vast continent in Resolution and Adventure,

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PROGRAM TUESDAY, 17.01.2017 – AT SEA

In accordance with 10:30 Polhøgda / Chinese 12:00 Booking deadline for International Association of Mandatory IAATO briefing with extra activities, post-cruise Antarctica Tour Operators Yibo & Pål and we reveal our excursions and transfers. (IAATO) protocols, Antarctic plans for tomorrow. Treaty regulations, and 13:00 Framheim / Chinese Norwegian law, the IAATO 11:30 Polhøgda / Spanish Francis presents a talk about briefings are mandatory for Mandatory IAATO briefing with penguins together with Yibo. all passengers. Please Arnau and we reveal our plans arrange to be present if you for tomorrow. 13:00 Vantage Group meets like to land in Antarctica. up with Valerie in Polhøgda. From 11:00 and onwards: We

09:30 Framheim / English will call you by your boat group 14:00 – 16:00 Vacuuming for Mandatory IAATO briefing with to collect your "Rubber boots backpacks and other things Jim, boat group 3, 4 and 5 - Arctic Muck Boots" on deck you will bring ashore in and we reveal our plans for 2 and 3. The boat group lists Antarctica you will be called by tomorrow. are to be found on the info boat group to use the vacuum board on deck 4. system on deck 3 and 5 - staff 09:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch are available to assist you. Mandatory IAATO briefing with You can try on a pair, and we Pål, boat group 1 und 2. Wir show you down to the boot geben zudem die Pläne für room where you can set them Please sign the IAATO morgen bekannt. on the rack sorted by cabin biosecurity declaration numbers for the duration of the afterwards and collect your 10:30 Framheim / English voyage. If you brought your boat group patch, which you Mandatory IAATO briefing with private rubber boots - please attach to your Expedition Jim, boat group 6, 7 and 8 come down to deck 2 and jacket. and we reveal our plans for have them placed on the rack tomorrow. on deck 2.

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Bridge Visits: 22:00 Panorama Lounge, deck rougher and the water color 14:00 Boat group 5 7. We invite you to our famous does not change. The waters 14:30 Boat group 6 FRAM - fashion show, where of Antarctica circle the 15:00 Boat group 1 some of the officers and the continent in the world’s biggest 15:30 Boat group 2 expedition team will show a ocean current at an estimated Bridge visits for the other boat selection of the clothing we rate of 150 million cubic groups will be arranged during have in the onboard shop on meters per second. Once the course of the voyage. deck 4. carried far into the northern oceans, the dense polar water 16:30 Framheim: Mandatory has a cooling effect on tropical briefing for everyone who has and temperate waters and is signed up for kayaking. The Antarctic Convergence important to the oceans’ is the where the warmer balance. 17:30 Framheim / English waters of the north meet the Informationsveranstaltung für colder, denser, less saline alle, die sich für die waters of the south. As the We would like to inform you that PolarCirkel Tour angemeldet colder water sinks beneath the all stated times and activities are haben. warmer, a mixing occurs that changeable due to weather brings nutrients to the surface. conditions, or other 17:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Found between 40ºS and circumstances out of our control. We kindly remind you to take care Mandatory briefing for everyone who has signed up walking around on the ship while 60ºS, the convergence is an at sea. Especially venturing out for PolarCircle Cruising. ever-changing frontier. It is the on deck, mind the signs for biological limit of the Antarctic warning of wet and slippery. Be 19:30 Polhøgda / Chinese ecosystem and anywhere aware the doors toward the outer Mandatory briefing for south of the convergence is decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be everyone who has signed up known as the Antarctic Ocean. potentially dangerous in windy for PolarCircle Cruising. While there is often a low fog conditions. While walking inside, in the area and an increase in hold on to railings but not in door 18:00 & 20:00 wildlife, other than using a frames Framheim / English thermometer, there is no way Polar Photography by our to know when you are ship’s photographer Chelsea crossing it; the seas do not get

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PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 18.01.2017 – 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

During the morning: We will TBA* PolarCirkelboat Cruise 21:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch sail into the Antarctic Sound to group A. Once we call you, Informationen über unsere reach our destination Brown please meet on deck 2 to Pläne für morgen. Bluff, where we hope to do a dress in the regatta suits. long landing. Please listen to the 21:30 Framheim / Chinese announcements for exact Information about the plans for Today we will start with our timings. You will go ashore for tomorrow. activities kayaking and Polar- the landing after the cruise. Cirkelboat cruising. Please We will call you after the last 21:30 Polhøgda / Spanish check the lists on deck 4. boat group (group 8). Information about the plans for tomorrow. Approx. 09:00 We hope to TBA* - Kayakers; once we do a landing at Brown Bluff. call you, please meet at the IMPORTANT FOR ALL reception ready to go. LANDINGS: Timings will depend on the ice Rubber boots are mandatory conditions. We will update you TBA* - PolarCirkleboat footwear. in the morning. The landing Cruise group B. After your Be ready for changeable will not start earlier than 9am. landing you return to the ship If we start landing, please do weather. and get dressed in a regatta not approach deck 2 until your Expect to get splashed. suit on deck 2. Please listen to boat group is called. the announcements for exact Do not carry items in your timings. You will go ashore for hands when embarking and We begin our landing by normal landing before the calling PolarCirkleboat disembarking from the boats. cruise. Cruise B, and then boat Return time to the ship will be group 1, 2, 3 until approx.100 21:00 Framheim / English given ashore. passengers are ashore. Information about the plans for Remember to return to the We will then announce a break tomorrow. landing site immediately if the before we continue with the ship’s horn sounds. next boat groups. ENJOY! *TBA = to be announced Please turn page.

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

INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA  You might get wet as the  Please take with you: sun ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT suits are not 100% blocker, scarf, hat and CRUISING: waterproof! gloves.

 Consider to cancel If you  Under the suit we  Protect your camera and have hip- or back recommend to wear 1 or binoculars of spray water problems, it might get 2 layers (long woollen (backpack or waterproof bumpy! underwear and a fleece). bag).

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PROGRAM THURSDAY, 19.01.2017 YANKEE HARBOUR & HALF MOON

Today we plan to have two Approx. 08:00: We hope to Approx. 14:00: We hope to landings, in the morning at do a landing at Yankee do a landing at Half Moon Yankee Harbour and in the Harbour. Island. afternoon at Half Moon Island, home to Chinstrap We begin our landing by We begin our landing by Penguins. calling boat group 2, 3, 4 and calling boat group 3, 4, 5 and 5 until we have approx. 100 6 until we have approx. 100 IMPORTANT FOR ALL passengers ashore. passengers ashore. LANDINGS: Then we will announce a Then we will announce a break. Please listen carefully break. Please listen carefully Rubber boots are mandatory to the announcements for your to the announcements for your footwear. group to be called and do NOT group to be called and do NOT go down to deck 2 before we go down to deck 2 before we Be ready for changeable call your group. call your group. After the break weather. After the break we will we will continue with the other continue with the other boat boat groups. Expect to get splashed. groups.

Approx. 14:30 Kayak group Do not carry items in your Please listen to the announce- hands when embarking and ments for exact timings and disembarking from the boats. meet at the reception ready to go once we call you. Return time to the ship will be given ashore. 21:00 Framheim / English Remember to return to the Information about the plans for landing site immediately if the tomorrow. ship’s horn sounds. 21:00 Polhøgda / Chinese ENJOY! Information about the plans for tomorrow.

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21:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Half Moon Island is a two- Informationen über unsere kilometre long (1.2 mile), Pläne für morgen. crescent-shaped island in the shadow of the picturesque 21:30 Framheim / Spanish mountains and glaciers of Information about the plans for nearby Livingston Island. It is tomorrow. a favoured expedition stop for its large chinstrap penguin A natural haven created by a rookery. Other than a short one kilometre-long (0.6 mile), hill, walking is generally easy. curved spit; Yankee Harbour The serrated and crevassed on Greenwich Island is so well cliffs are also home to situated as to appear man- Antarctic terns, kelp gulls, ‘ made. Named for the snowy sheathbills, and American sealers that Wilson’s storm petrels. frequented here in the 1820’s, Landings are usually made on remnants of the era linger and an easily accessible, wide a sealer’s tripod can be seen beach where an abandoned on the beach. Elephant, dory lies decaying. Once up Weddell, and fur seals are the hill, there are magnificent common sights on the beach views of Livingston Island and and the main attraction is a humpback whales have been We would like to inform you that terraced Gentoo colony spotted breeching in the water all stated times and activities are numbering around 4000 pairs. between the two islands. changeable due to weather Nearby Glacier Bluff offers a Down towards the western conditions, or other dramatic backdrop and on a end of the beach is Teniente circumstances out of our control. clear day, one can see across Camara station with its huge We kindly remind you to take care walking around on the ship while the McFarlane Strait to Argentine flags emblazoned at sea. Especially venturing out Livingston and Half Moon on the orange buildings. The on deck, mind the signs for islands. The gravel beach station has been sporadically warning of wet and slippery. Be affords easy walking but can staffed in recent years due to aware the doors toward the outer often be windy and cold. Be the Argentine economy. This decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be careful of extensive moss will be our only opportunity to potentially dangerous in windy beds and nesting Skuas and see chinstrap penguins in conditions. While walking inside, fur seals. significant numbers. hold on to railings but not in door frames.

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PROGRAM FRIDAY, 20.01.2017 DECEPTION ISLAND

Today we plan to have two end of your landing. Towels 10:30 PolarCirkleboat landings on Deception Island, are provided ashore. Geology Cruise group B. in Whalers Bay and Telefon Please meet on deck 2 to Bay. We will also have a We begin our landing by dress in the regatta suits. Geology Cruise with our calling PolarCirkleboat Please listen to the PolarCirkleboats. Please Geology Cruise group B, announcements for exact check the lists on deck 4. followed by boat group 4 timings. In order to go etc. until we have approx. 100 ashore before your cruise, 07:15 We will sail through the passengers ashore. Then we we call you as the first narrow entrance of Deception will announce a break. Please group for the landing. Island known as “Neptunes listen carefully to the Bellows”. It is worth being announcements for your group Approx. 14:30 We hope to outside or close to a window to to be called and do NOT go do a landing at Telefon Bay. witness this navigation. down to deck 2 before we call Some scientific instruments your group. After the break we are located there. Do not Important for both landings: will continue with the other approach them! Rubber boots are mandatory boat groups. footwear. Return time to the We begin our landing by ship will be given ashore. 08:30 PolarCirkleboat calling boat group 5 etc. until Geology Cruise group A. we have approx. 100 08:15 We hope to do a Please meet on deck 2 to passengers ashore. Then we landing at Whalers Bay. dress in the regatta suits. will announce a break. Please listen to the Please listen carefully to the At Whalers Bay please remain announcements for exact announcements for your group outside of the buildings and timings. In order to go to be called and do NOT go structures. It is unsafe to ashore after your cruise, we down to deck 2 before we call enter any building! We will call you after the last boat your group. After the break we offer a scenic hike. If you wish group (3). will continue with the other to swim, you can do so at the boat groups.

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21:00 Polhøgda / Chinese foul. Therefore the ship will of Deception's recent Information about the plans for have merely 100 metres (330 eruptions. The rising slope of tomorrow. feet) with which to navigate. the black, cinder-covered Once safely through the volcanic rim can be walked 21:00 Framheim / English Bellows, Whalers Bay will uphill to spectacular view Information about the plans for begin to appear off the point. tomorrow. starboard side of the ship.

21:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch Whalers Bay was home to INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA Informationen über unsere factory whaling ships as early ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT morgigen Pläne. as 1905 and a shore station CRUISING: named Hektor from 1912-1931 21:30 Framheim / Spanish as well as British Base B built  Consider to cancel if you Information about the plans for in 1941. Both the base and have hip- or back problems, tomorrow. station were finally destroyed it might get bumpy! by a mudslide during the 22:00 Fruit & Ice Carving. 1967-69 eruption along with a  You might get wet as the Join us in the Panorama Chilean base farther down suits are not 100% Lounge and enjoy our talented Port Foster in Pendulum Cove. waterproof! chefs creating pieces of art Today there are two stations in with ice and fruits. operation, Spain’s Gabriel de  Under the suit we Castilla and Argentina’s recommend to wear 1 or 2

Decepción. layers (long woollen A portion of the wall of the underwear and a fleece). volcanic caldera of Deception Telefon Bay on the north- Island has collapsed, flooding western side of Port Foster is  Please take with you: sun the interior and creating an named for a salvage vessel blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. amazing natural harbour that moored here in 1909, known as Port Foster. Access awaiting repairs. From a wide,  Protect your camera and to the interior is through the flat beach, a black ash apron binoculars of spray water 200 metre-wide (660 feet) slopes gently upward and (backpack or waterproof entrance known as Neptune’s inland for about 985 feet (300 bag). Bellows. There is a rock in the meters) t the steep face of the middle just under the water cinder-covered volcanic and the area to one side is glacier and a crater from one

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PROGRAM SATURDAY, 21.01.2017 – WILHELMINA & DANCO ISLAND

Our plan in the morning is to Approx. 14:00 We hope to 14:30 Kayakers meet in cruise with the MV FRAM in do a landing at Danco reception ready to go. Wilhelmina Bay, which has Island. lovely glacial scenery and 16:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise keep a sharp look out for We begin our landing by group B. Please meet on whales! calling PolarCirkleboat deck 2 to dress in the regatta In the afternoon we plan to Cruise group B, followed by suits. Please listen to the land in Danco Island. We will boat group 5 etc. until we announcements for exact also have a kayak group and have approx. 100 passengers timings. In order to go two PolarCirkleboat groups. ashore. Then we will ashore before your cruise, Weather permitting camping announce a break. Please we call you as the first will take place tonight. Please listen carefully to the group for the landing. check the lists on deck 4. announcements for your group to be called and do NOT go Approx. 20:30 Camping Important for all landings: down to deck 2 before we call Group A Rubber boots are mandatory your group. After the break we We hope to arrange a camp at footwear. Return time to the will continue with the other Danco Island. Kindly listen to ship will be given ashore. boat groups. the announcement for when to go ashore. Please eat your 14:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise dinner early. group A. Please meet on deck 2 to dress in the regatta 21:00 Polhøgda / Chinese suits. Please listen to the Information about the plans for announcements for exact tomorrow. timings. In order to go ashore after your cruise, we 21:00 Framheim / English call you after the last boat Information about the plans for group (4). tomorrow. 13:30 Camping briefing / Polhøgda, deck 4 Please turn the page.

21:30 Polhøgda / Spanish named for Professor Léo changeable due to weather Informationen über unsere Errera of the University of conditions, or other morgigen Pläne. Brussels, a benefactor of the circumstances out of our control. voyage. Errera is home to We kindly remind you to take care 21:30 Framheim / Deutsch Danco and Cuverville Islands. walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out Information about the plans for on deck, mind the signs for tomorrow. warning of wet and slippery. Be Danco Island is named for the aware the doors toward the outer Belgian Physicist Emile decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be Danco, a member of Adrian de potentially dangerous in windy Gerlache’s Belgica expedition conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door to this region in 1898. This expedition was the first to frames. spend the winter in Antarctica,

after their ship became trapped in the ice. Danco died of unknown causes during Please check the transfer, expedition. The island has a flight and post-excursion rocky northern shore with a lists on the information gently inclining snow slope. It board on deck 4! is one of the few landings were we can safely spread Wilhelmina Bay is a bay 24 out. So we will use out flags kilometres (15 mi) wide and cones to mark a safe between the Reclus perimeter in which you can Peninsula and Cape wander, sit, photo, write, Anna along the west coast contemplate and so on. of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897- INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA 99 led by Adrien de Gerlache. ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT The bay is named CRUISING: for Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, who reigned from  Consider to cancel if you 1890 to 1948. have hip- or back problems, Wilhelmina Bay is dubbed it might get bumpy! "Whale-mina Bay" for its large number of humpback whales.  You might get wet as the It is a popular destination for suits are not 100% tourist expedition ships to waterproof! Antarctica thanks to its abundant whale population  Under the suit we and spectacular scenery. The recommend to wear 1 or 2 bay is surrounded by steep layers (long woollen cliffs full of snow and glaciers. underwear and a fleece). An almost perfect pyramid- shaped peak towers over the  Please take with you: sun water. blocker, scarf, hat and gloves.

 Protect your camera and The Errera Channel is a binoculars of spray water scenic, narrow waterway between Rongé Island and the (backpack or waterproof bag). Arctowski Peninsula on the mainland. It was discovered by the Belgica expedition and We would like to inform you that all stated times and activities are Please turn the page.

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PROGRAM SUNDAY, 22.01.2017 – PARADISE HARBOUR, CHARCOT

06:00 Campers Collection Approx. 08:00: We hope to 10:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise do a landing at Paradise group B. Please meet on Today we plan to have two Harbour, near Almirante deck 2 to dress in the regatta landings, in Paradise Harbour Brown Station. suits. Please listen to the and Port Charcot. In order to announcements for exact land in Port Charcot we will try 08:15 PolarCirkleboat Cruise timings. You will go ashore for to pass through the scenic group A. Please meet on normal landing before the Lemaire Channel. deck 2 to dress in the regatta cruise. In each destination we will suits. Please listen to the have one kayak group. announce-ments for exact Afternoon: After leaving PolarCirkleboat cruising will be timings. You will go ashore for Paradise Harbour it will take offered in the morning. Please the landing after the cruise. approx. two hours to get to the check the lists on deck 4. We will call you after the last entrance of the scenic boat group (group 6). Lemaire Channel. Our Important for both landings: recommendation is to stay on Rubber boots are mandatory 08:30 Kayakers Group A the outer decks when we sail footwear. Return time to the Please listen to the announce- through this scenic channel. ship will be given ashore. ments for you to be called. We The channel has been blocked will meet at the reception. with ice for much of the season and the ice situation We begin our landing by will dictate how far we can go. calling PolarCirkleboat Cruise group B and then boat group Stand by for announcements! 7 and so on. Please listen then for the break time. Listen Approx. 16:30: If the ice carefully for the announce- allows us to go through the ments for your group to be channel, we hope to do a called. Please do not landing at Port Charcot. If approach deck 2 until your not, we will be on Plan B. group is called. Please turn the page.

We begin our landing by (backpack or waterproof need to travel all the way calling boat group 8 etc. bag). down to experience its beauty. Please listen then for the break time. Listen carefully for Port Charcot is one of Jim’s the announcements for your favorite spots. Charcot’s ship group to be called. Please do Paradise Harbor, also known Français wintered here in not approach deck 2 until your as Paradise Bay, is a wide 1904. We will land on Booth group is called. embayment behind Lemaire Island where we hope to find and Bryde Islands in some Adelie Penguins and As this landing is a late Antarctica, indenting the west Chinstrap Penguins. landing, please plan your coast of Graham Land We would like to inform you that dinner well ahead. between Duthiers and Leniz all stated times and activities are We recommend the groups Points. The name was first changeable due to weather 4, 5, 6 and 7 to eat before applied by whalers operating conditions, or other the landing and group 8, 1, in the vicinity and was in use circumstances out of our control. 2, 3 and the kayakers to eat by 1920. It is one of only two after the landing/kayaktour. harbors used for cruise ships to stop on the continent; the Approx. 16:30 Kayakers B other is Neko Harbour. Please listen to the announce- Argentina's Almirante Brown ments for you to be called. We Antarctic Base stands on the will meet at the reception. coast of the bay, as does Chile's González Videla We kindly remind you to take care 21:30 Panorama Lounge Antarctic Base. Information about the plans for walking around on the ship while at sea. Especially venturing out tomorrow (English, German, The Lemaire Channel was on deck, mind the signs for Chinese) first sighted by Eduard warning of wet and slippery. Be Dallman in 1873 and then aware the doors toward the outer charted and traversed by decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be Adrien de Gerlache in 1898. potentially dangerous in windy INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA He named it for Charles conditions. While walking inside, ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT Lemaire, a fellow Belgian who hold on to railings but not in door CRUISING: explored the Congo for King frames.

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 Consider to cancel if you weather, this eleven kilometer- have hip- or back problems, long (seven mile) and 1.6 it might get bumpy! kilometer-wide (one mile) channel can be strikingly  You might get wet as the beautiful. The steep cliffs and suits are not 100% glaciers of Booth Island to one waterproof! side mirror the opposite shores of the Antarctic  Under the suit we Peninsula. When protected recommend to wear 1 or 2 from the wind, the clear waters layers (long woollen offer an extraordinary underwear and a fleece). reflection of the mountains in

the water; there can appear to  Please take with you: sun be four different sets nudging

blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. each other. Navigation of the channel is dependent upon ice

 Protect your camera and conditions but one doesn’t binoculars of spray water

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PROGRAM MONDAY, 23.01.2017 Port Charcot & Vernadsky Station

Today we plan to have two group to be called. We begin our landing by landings, in the morning at Please do not approach deck calling boat group 1 and so Port Charcot and in the 2 until your group is called. on until we have approx. 100 afternoon at Vernadsky passengers ashore. Station. 08:45 PolarCirkleboat Then we will announce a Cruise. Please meet on deck break. Please listen carefully Important for both landings: 2 to dress in the regatta suits. to the announcements for your Rubber boots are mandatory Please listen to the group to be called and do not footwear. Return time to the announcements for exact go down to deck 2 before we ship will be given ashore. timings. You will go ashore for call your group. After the break the landing after the cruise. we will continue with the other We will call you after the last boat groups. boat group (group 7). Approx. 21:00 Camping 08:15 Kayakers: Please listen Group B to the announcements for you We hope to arrange a camp to be called. We will meet at tonight. Kindly listen to the the reception. announcement for when to go ashore. Please eat your dinner Approx. 14:00: We hope to early. do a landing at Vernadsky Approx. 08:00: We hope to Station, a Ukrainian 21:00 Panorama Lounge do a landing at Port Charcot. scientific station. We Information about the plans for recommend bringing some tomorrow in English, German We begin our landing by cash (preferably Euros and and Chinese. calling boat group 8 and so Dollars) as the station offers on. Please listen then for the some souvenirs. Together with break time. Listen carefully for the scientists of the station we the announcements for your will give you a 30-min-tour.

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Port Charcot is one of Jim’s favorite spots. Charcot’s ship Français wintered here in 1904. We will land on Booth Island where we hope to find some Adelie, Gento and INFORMATION ONLY FOR EXTRA Chinstrap Penguins. ACTIVITY POLARCIRKELBOAT CRUISING: In 1947 the British built Wordie House, or Base ‘F’ on Winter  Consider to cancel if you Island in the Argentine Islands have hip- or back problems, on the site of a hut built by the it might get bumpy! earlier British Graham Land We would like to inform you that Expedition. In 1954 they all stated times and activities are  You might get wet as the changeable due to weather closed the base and began suits are not 100% conditions, or other circum- building what would become waterproof! stances out of our control. We the modern station of Faraday kindly remind you to take care on nearby Galindez Island.  Under the suit we walking around on the ship while The men at Faraday Station recommend to wear 1 or 2 at sea. Especially venturing out co-discovered the Antarctic layers (long woollen on deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. Be ozone hole along with Halley underwear and a fleece). Station in the Weddell Sea. aware the doors toward the outer decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be Despite their hard work, base  Please take with you: sun staff still found time to build potentially dangerous in windy blocker, scarf, hat and gloves. conditions. While walking inside, the nicest pub south of 60º, hold on to railings but not in door complete with pool table and  Protect your camera and frames. dart board. In 1996, the British binoculars of spray water gave Faraday to the newly (backpack or waterproof independent Ukraine who bag). 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. Souvenirs of T-shirts and postcards may be available and Ukraine is one of the few non-claimant nations to offer a postal service.

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DAILY PROGRAM TUESDAY, 24.01.2017 – PORT LOCKROY

Approx. 07:00 Pick up everyone to attend this Campers informative briefing.

This morning as we sail to our After the briefing we will begin afternoon destination Port our landing by calling boat Lockroy we will entertain you group 2 etc. with some lectures. Important for landings: Rubber 09:30 Framheim / English boots are mandatory footwear. Lecture: Fram - Three Return time to the ship will be incredible journeys by Stian given ashore. Aadland. Space on the island and After the landing we will begin 09:30 Polhøgda / Chinese inside the base is limited, so sailing to the north. We will be Lecture: Mighty Marine we will operate a one in one in open water around 2 hours Mammals – seals and whales out system. You will have 45 after leaving Port Lockroy. with Jóhann Thorbjørnson min on shore. 22.00 The Famous FRAM 11:00 Framheim / Deutsch Listen carefully for the Crew show. Not only do they Lecture: Antarktisches Wetter announcements for your group cook, drive boats, and keep für Anfänger by Pål Ranheim to be called. Please do not the engines running…but they approach deck 2 until your will entertain you too! 11:00 Polhøgda / Catalan group is called. Lecture with Arnau Approx. 14:30 Kayakers The region we will sail in today 14:00 We welcome one of Please listen to the announce- was extensively explored by the team from Port Lockroy ments for you to be called. We the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste to the Panorama Lounge to will meet at the reception. Etienne Auguste Charcot in tell us about the base and 1908-1910. He explored more museum, and we encourage than 1990 km (1240 miles) of Please turn page.

previously unknown coastline. on Goudier Island at Port During his first expedition Lockroy has become one of aboard the vessel Français in the most visited sites in 1903-1905 he discovered Port Antarctica. It now operates as Lockroy and Booth Island. a museum, kept as it was in Port Lockroy: during the 1950s, as well as a post Operation Tabarin in 1944, the office and souvenir shop with British set up two bases in the all proceeds going to the AHT, Peninsula area to establish a a non-profit organization permanent presence in the dedicated to conserving this Antarctic. They set up Base ‘A’ and other historical huts in at Port Lockroy, a known safe Antarctica. 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’

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

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DAILY PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, 25.01.2017 – AT SEA

On our first sea day we 12:00 – 14:00 Expedition 16:00 Framheim / English continue the bridge visits: desk, deck 4: Return of the Lecture: Atle presents his talk boat group patches, which My passion for Kayaking 09:00 Boat group 3 you had on you Expedition 09:30 Boat group 4 Jacket. If you would like to 18:00 & 20:00 Framheim 10:30 Boat group 7 keep your patch as a souvenir English, Film: Shackleton with 11:00 Boat group 8 you may, and a small charge Kenneth Branagh, part 1, ca. will be added to your account 100 min (99Nok). 09:30 Framheim / Deutsch 18:00 & 20:00 Polhøgda / Lecture: Klima: woher kommt 12:15 Framheim / Catalan Deutsch, Film: Shackleton – es, wohin geht es? by Francis Arnau gives a talk in Catalan. Verschollen im ewigen Eis, Wiese Teil 1, ca. 100 min 13:00 Vantage group meets in 09:30 Polhøgda / Chinese Polhøgda, deck 4. 21:30 We invite you for a Lecture: Who owns Antarctica Question and Answer session and the Antarctic treaty by 14:00 The Campers meet in with the Captain and some of Robert Rowland Polhøgda, deck 4. MV Fram’s officers in the Panorama Lounge on Deck 7. 11:00 Framheim / English 14:30 Framheim / English Lecture: Bird paradise by Lecture: Climate Change: Miguel Rubio-Godoy Science, Policy and Actions by Human eyes did not see Francis Wiese Antarctica until 1820 yet it had 11:00 Polhøgda / Chinese been known to exist since the Lecture: Atle presents his talk 16:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch time of Aristotle. Although it My passion for Kayaking Lecture: Vogelparadies by has been on our maps and Miguel Rubio-Godoy charts and satellite photos for

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less than two hundred years, it survived in our imaginations for two thousand years before that. Among all the mythical and magical places of the world Atlantis, El Dorado, the

Fountain of Youth - Antarctica is the only one we have found so far. Its very existence is a proof of magic. The history of Antarctica is however one of resource misuse; first the seals and then the whales. Will there be a third era? We encourage you to keep

Antarctica a part of your life always. The people who visit Antarctica may be the continent’s best hope for its pristine survival, as they become advocates and emissaries.

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 in windy conditions. While walking inside, hold on to railings but not in door frames.

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DAILY

PROGRAM THURSDAY, 26.01.2017 – AT SEA

09:30 Framheim / English 14:30 Polhøgda / Catalan 18:00 Polhøgda / Deutsch, Lecture: Who owns Antarctica Arnau gives a talk in Catalan. Film: Shackleton – and the Antarctic treaty by Verschollen im ewigen Eis, Robert Rowland 16:00 Polhøgda / Chinese Teil 2, ca. 100 min Lecture: Yibo presents a talk 09:30 Polhøgda / Deutsch how you can contribute to From 19:30 Framheim: Lecture: Das System des science in Antarctica through We show the slide Antarktisvertrags by Francis Citizen Science. presentation of Chelsea’s Wiese pictures of this expedition 17:00 Captain’s farewell cruise! 11:00 Framheim / English cocktail, Panorama Lounge You can order the Photo- Lecture: Teva presents how deck 7. Our captain would like DVD at the reception until you can contribute to science to take the opportunity to 22:00. in Antarctica through Citizen thank you for travelling with Science. us, and invite you for a cocktail End of Voyage in the bar. Welcome! arrangements 11.00 Polhøgda / Deutsch Lecture: Regina erläutert, wie Afterwards we present the jeder einzelne durch Citizen MV Fram Charity Auction! The INFORMATION Science zur Wissenschaft in auction supports the der Antarktis beitragen kann. Hurtigruten Foundation, lots Passports: During the day include a chart of this voyage, you may collect your 12:00 Polhøgda / English: and the flag of the ship. Film: Shackleton with Kenneth passports from reception.

Branagh, part 2, ca. 100 min, 18:00 Framheim / English: repeated at 18:00 A separate page with Film: Shackleton with Kenneth disembarkation information 14:30 Framheim / English Branagh, part 2, ca. 100 min will be delivered to you cabin Lecture: Stian presents a talk today. about his journey into nature

You have received a tipping stances out of our control. We form in your cabin, if you wish kindly remind you to take care to give gratuities to the crew, walking around on the ship while please fill it out and deliver the at sea. Especially venturing out form to reception. This will be on deck, mind the signs for warning of wet and slippery. Be charged to your Cruise aware the doors toward the outer account. decks on 4, 5, 7 and 8 can be potentially dangerous in windy You could also give cash tip, conditions. While walking inside, please use an envelope and hold on to railings but not in door put it in the “tip box” on the frames. right hand side of the Reception. This tip will be shared between all the Crew on board. 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, excursion 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 circum-