DAILY 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. DAILY 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, Please turn page. DAILY PROGRAM TUESDAY, 17.01.2017 – AT SEA OVERVIEW OF RESTAURANT TIMINGS EARLY BIRD SELF SERVICE 06:00 - 07:30 BISTRO, DECK 4 BREAKFAST BUFFET 07:30 - 09:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 - 14:30 RESTAURANT, DECK 4 TEA TIME 15:30 - 17:00 PANORAMA LOUNGE, DECK 7 DINNER MENU 18:00 1st seating RESTAURANT, DECK 4 20:00 2nd seating In accordance with 10:30 Polhøgda / Chinese 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. Please turn page. 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.