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essential round up of the best bits of kit for your journey, and some ideas to bring the adventure to your kitchen, with food and drink inspired by the places we visit this issue. We will also be welcoming Jennifer Carruth, from Discover The World as a guest contributor as she takes us on a journey across frozen lands – and gives some useful advice on what to do when looking to book a once in a lifetime experience. For additional features, galleries and news visit us at goandseemagazine.com
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elcome to the second edition of Go&See Magazine – usually it’s a very warm hello as we look forward to another exciting issue, but it’s time to wrap up for one super cool adventure as we discover the ice and snow by land, sea and air. Come with us as we take a look a disused post office overthrown by 4000 Penguins in the Antarctic, adventures ahoy with arctic cruising, iceberg hopping and all round adventureness. Plus we give you an
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CONTENTS
Alaska Canada British Columbia
FOCAL POINT Intrepid Travel: Antarctica 10 Antarctica Bound: Antarctica 12 Intrepid Travel: Alaska 14 Alaska 28
FEATURES The Penguin Post Office 23 The Weird & Wonderful World of Wildlife 35 Discover The World: The North/South connection 41
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Wild and windswept yet far from being a wasteland, Antarctica’s sheets of white are an alluring blend of everything and nothingness. With few human inhabitants and wildlife unperturbed by human contact, visitors to Antarctica often feel like ghosts drifting across the Southern Ocean to a land that has no need for the vestiges of human civilisation. Nevertheless, Antarctica’s tale of exploration is a worthy one, and no visit is complete without contemplating the heroics of Shackleton and a visit to his South Georgia resting place. Do it yourself www.intrepidtravel.com
ANTARCTICA “I had never witnessed so many shades of blue and I couldn’t comprehend the beauty around me. The glaciers felt alive as they gave off deep rumbles when giant chunks of ice plunged towards the water. I was
in heaven and knew what absolute bliss felt like. We spent 3 hours in heaven that afternoon and the day was still far from over.” Posted February 28th, 2012 by Dave and Deb from the PlanetD Blog.
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This won’t be for everyone – but the sheer thrill of kayaking through a glacier, is simply just, wow. If you’ve never encountered an iceberg before it will be one of two or three things in your entire life that physically stops you in your tracks. However, when you get down to water level you really start to understand the magnitude of what you are looking at –20,40,60 story buildings courtesy of mother nature suddenly shunts everything into perspective. If you have the bottle, the right kit and of course know-how, iceberg kayaking is something you really must try. The iceberg is really claustrophobic and has a tight entry point – but apparently that is a good thing, as you are less likely to be hit by falling objects. You can check our blog & galleries out at goandseemagazine.com. Do it yourself. www.intrepidtravel.com
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Páramo offers high performance outdoor clothing to keep you comfortable in the harshest conditions, so you can enjoy the wildest places safely. The award-winning range from baselayers to waterproofs, lightweight shirts to snug insulation utilise technical Nikwax fabrics to ensure protection from the elements. Páramo pioneered a more practical alternative to conventional layering so you can overlayer insulation without losing precious body heat that’s been generated. Selected as workwear by the British Antarctic Survey and by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and The Coldest Journey team, kit easily stands up to the rigours of nature whether you’re in Antarctica or Africa!
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very summer, as staff put stamps on postcards, around them gentoo penguins rush to raise & protect their young. It is truly one of the most remarkable wildlife scenes to behold. Around the area in which the penguins nest hunters lie – circling leopard seals and killer whales prowl the water for penguins, just yards from the post office. If only standing in a post office queue was always this exciting!
DRAMA ON THE ISLAND
This extraordinary drama plays out over four months, finishing just before the sea starts to freeze and feeding becomes impossibility. As well as 4000 penguins, in summer the island hosts crab eater and Weddell seals. Neither are afraid of humans and ‘Jabba’ (a resident Weddell seal) has been known to follow staff around like a love-sick puppy. Leopard seals are less friendly, and from our experience with them at close encounters should not be disturbed – the leopard seal is named for its black-spotted coat. The pattern is similar to that of the famous big cat, though the seal’s coat is grey rather than golden in colour. This seal is sometimes called the sea
leopard, and the resemblance is more than skin deep. Like their feline namesakes, leopard seals are fierce predators. They are the most formidable hunters of all the seals and the only ones that feed on warm-blooded prey, such as other seals – and 4000 gentoo penguins beached close to the sea. Leopard seals use their powerful jaws and long teeth to kill smaller seals, fish, and squid. Minke whales and orcas are regular visitors to the bay, the latter sending the gentoo penguins into panic. Orcas regularly feed on penguins in Antarctica, scientists have discovered. Although orcas are known to predate penguins further north, around sub-Antarctic islands, this is the first time they have been seen hunting the birds in Antarctic continental waters. What is more, the orcas seem to be particularly choosy about which bits of the penguins they eat; being inclined to take only the best cuts of penguin breast meat.
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Occasionally a lost Adelie or King penguin will turn up at Port Lockroy. Wandering around like lost souls they are viewed with utter suspicion by the gentoos.
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Colony of gentoo penguins congregate at the start of the breeding season
Also beneath the waves, often beside the enormous skeletons of whales and the whaling boats that once hunted them, weirder wildlife is found: jelly fish with extraordinary luminous stripes pulsating up and down their bodies; and glyptonotus antarcticus, scuttling along the sea bed like a giant marine woodlouse – eight inches long they will eat anything, dead or alive. Giant petrel – from the family Procellariidae and consist of two species, they are the largest birds from this family, are often seen swooping overhead and Antarctic terns are common, but groups of skuas seabirds are the petrels bully boys of Port Lockrey. Sheathbills breed on the island in time for their young to feast on gentoo chicks. The BBC Natural History Unit has commissioned Andrew Graham-Brown to spend an extraordinary six months filming Gentoo penguins and other wildlife in the Antarctic.
Like their feline namesakes, leopard seals are fierce predators. They are the most formidable hunters of all the seals and the only ones that feed on warm-blooded prey
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LURKING BENEATH THE WAVES
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The birds that visit Wales’s Dyfi Osprey Project have travelled 3,000 miles to be here. Thankfully, you’ve only got a short hop in order to experience their splendour. Situated near Machynlleth, this unique project offers a fascinating insight into the lives of one of our most treasured and rare species. Make sure you tick this off your checklist of Wales’s spectacular wildlife attractions. To find out more about what you can pack into your holiday in Wales go to visitwales.com
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ICE CAVE – JUNEAU, ALASKA There’s magic in the Mendenhall Ice Caves – where water runs over rocks under blue ceilings inside a partially hollow glacier. The Mendenhall Glacier is a 12-mile-long glacier in the Mendenhall Valley, located only 12 miles from downtown Juneau in Southeast Alaska. Federally protected as part of the Mendenhall Galcier Recreation Area, a unit of the Tongass National Forest, the glacier originally had two names, Sitaantaagu (“Glacier Behind the Town”) and Aak’wtaaksit (“Glacier Behind the Little Lake”). The Ice Caves are inside the glacier, accessible only to those willing to kayak to, and then ice climb over the glacier. However, the glacier is retreating increasingly fast as global warming heats the oceans and temperatures rise. Monitored since 1942 by the Juneau Icefield Research Program, the Mendenhall Glacier has receded almost 2 miles since 1958, while previously it had receded only 0.5 miles since 1500. The caves are in part a function of this increased glacial melting. Like this? See more images & galleries at goandseemagazine.com including the stunning NIGARDSBREEN ICE CAVE in LUSTER, NORWAY.
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Renowned for its stunning natural beauty, British Columbia contains some of the world’s greatest untamed lands. This vast wilderness is home to black, brown (or grizzly) bears, honey-coloured spirit bears, bald eagles and magnificent humpback and orca whales found in the nutrient rich waters along the coast. No other location in the world offers such intimate wildlife encounters amongst such breathtaking natural splendour. Natures greatest event, the spawning of the salmon, is a daily occurrence in British Columbia between late August and mid October and this annual wonder is the key drawcard that brings in the bears and the wolves. In the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, which covers roughly 70,000 square kilometres of BC’s forested coastline, extending from the Discovery Islands in the south all the way north to the Alaskan border, amongst one of the largest concentrations of grizzly bears in British Columbia, is Knight Inlet Lodge, visit this wonderful floating lodge from which you can explore hidden coves and view bears at eye-level. If you have a keen interest in conservation then why not join our trip aboard Island Roamer in the company of renowned conservation scientist from Raincoast Conservation. Learn about some of the key conservation issues, through lectures, discussions and field observations, enjoy access to a cetacea lab in Whale Channel, and if you wish, assist with sampling and non-intrusive bear fur collection for DNA analysis. Prepare yourself for a wildlife fiesta like no other in British Columbia!
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THE NORTHERN WOLFFISH The Northern Wolffish is carnivorous and feeds on other smaller creatures of the ocean like sea urchins, crabs, starfishes, and brittle stars. At greater depths they can be found eating jellyfish or smaller fish that move about in the open waters of the deep sea. Their razor-sharp teeth help them to tear their prey’s flesh before ingesting it. The sharp teeth of the Northern Wolffish protect it from its natural predators, thus giving it a rather dominant persona and reputation in the ocean world. The Northern Wolffish is rather large in size with a large head and a set of sharp pointed teeth at the apical region of the mouth. In fact, it has the largest head in its category.
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SCANDINAVIA Scandinavia’s ancient Everyman’s Rights allow individuals to explore and exploit the products of the countryside (without harming the landowner or the land). With an invitation like this, Finland’s forests and lakes, Sweden’s largely undiscovered archipelagos, Norway’s famous mountains and fjords – and the remote wilderness of Lapland, which over-spans the north of these three countries – are a potent lure. In
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Just south of the Arctic Circle, Iceland is rugged and romantic – and close enough to the UK for a quick and adventurous escape. It’s an easy place to explore year-round with long hours of daylight in summer and the chance to see the northern lights over the winter months. What’s waiting after the 3hr flight is a landscape fantastical enough to bring films and TV to life. Moss-softened lavascapes and craggy mountains cut with thundering waterfalls give way to vast glaciers and the sweeping valleys their progress has left behind. You can straddle (or snorkel between) two continental plates or relax in the natural geothermally heated hotpots. Remote cliffs are raucous with nesting birdlife, whales swim off the black sand shores, and the people (along with their sheep and horses) can trace their Viking lineage.
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summer, the midnight sun and long daylight hours encourage locals and visitors alike to spend as much time as they can outside and away from the cities, charming as they are. In winter, Abisko National Park, in Swedish Lapland, is one of the best places in the world to see the northern lights as, due to a climatic quirk, it has consistently cloud-free skies.
POLAR – ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC Truly the ends of the earth, the High Arctic and Antarctica are the most remote, most stupendous regions on the planet. For wildlife, polar bears draw many travellers to the Arctic – to Spitsbergen or Churchill (Canada) – while penguins are the stars of the far south. Small ship cruises are a popular way to explore the Arctic, whether that’s the fjords of northern Norway or the coast of Greenland, although there are some land-based options, particularly in northern Canada. The only way for most tourists to visit Antarctica, however, is by ship. IAATO restrictions mean that only 100 people per boat can be ashore at any time, so smaller expedition vessels (80-120px) have the advantage. The majority of Antarctic cruises visit the Antarctic Peninsula, but conditions permitting, some voyages do hold the lure of going beyond 66 S, as well as visiting sub-Antarctic islands like South Georgia and the South Shetlands.
CANADA AND ALASKA Canada, the Great White North, and the neighbouring US state Alaska are both vast places with huge tracts of wilderness, where wildlife and the chance to explore the outdoors draw travellers. Eastern Canada has strong maritime influences thanks to its island provinces, numerous lakes and the mighty St Lawrence River. Further west, as you cross the Rocky Mountains from Alberta to British Columbia and head north to the Yukon Territory and into Alaska, there’s a real frontier feeling as you follow the trails of the early pioneers and First Nations peoples. Bears and moose roam the forests, orcas and otters play in the coastal waters. The wilderness is on the doorstep, even staying in cosmopolitan cities like Vancouver or Toronto.
From its tropical north to its out-lying sub-Antarctic south, via grand volcanic peaks and rolling winelands, New Zealand is an intensely diverse country with incredible appeal. The longhaul journey is well worth the effort; with all the incredible scenery, it’d be a shame to see New Zealand from just one angle. A scenic flight around Aoraki, the cloud-piercer (otherwise known as majestic Mt Cook) is highly recommended, while taking to the water in Northland and Fiordland are a justifiably iconic experiences. Exploring the phenomenal natural world is enriched by gaining an understanding of the Maori culture, which is interwoven into the fabric of everyday life and the land itself.
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SAILING INTO BREATHTAKING LANDSCAPES
A voyage along the iconic coast of Norway on the fabled ‘post ship’ is an experience that cannot be equalled. These ships have been a lifeline to the villages, towns and cities along the Norwegian coast since 1893. In the summer, we sail beneath the 24-hour glow of the Midnight Sun whilst winter brings with it the beauty of the frozen landscape and the chance of witnessing the incredible Northern Lights. In between, spring and autumn bring their own charms as the landscape transforms. And with this incredible nature comes a fascinating array of coastal birdlife, viewable both from the ship and as part of a choice of optional Birdwatching excursions with local experts. Get up close to the sea eagles in the Trollfjord or take a trip to the incredible bird cliffs of the northerly Varanger peninsula.
For more information or to book please call 020 3740 see your travel agent or visit www.hurtigruten.co.uk V7545
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Price based on two people sharing an inside cabin on a full board basis travelling in September 2014. Not included: flights, transfers, optional excursions, travel insurance and portage. Offer applies to new bookings only, subject to availability and Hurtigruten’s normal booking conditions.
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