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ULTIMATE POLAR EXPEDITION SHIPS

EXPLORING ANTARCTICA SHOULD BE A PINNACLE EVENT IN

a traveller’s life. We’re committed to doing whatever it takes to ma ke your experience the most memorable ever—and our expedition ships are key. Top-tier Ice Class vessels, each is purpose-designed and built, incorporating 50+ years of polar experience, for exploring the ice in comfort and safety. The captains of the Lindblad-National Geographic fleet are extraordinary mariners, with decades of ice navigation expertise. Our expedition teams are hand-picked for their knowledge of polar natural history and their ice skills. Equipped with state-of-the-art tools, our ships are unparalleled bases for explorations. And the logistics on each are superb, designed to swiftly and efficiently get you off ship on your choice of thrilling daily forays.

The captains of the Lindblad-National Geographic fleet are extraordinary mariners. For example, Leif Skog, Lindblad VP of Marine Operations and Master of the National Geographic Explorer, has been navigating vessels in Antarctica nearly every season since 1979 on over 200 polar voyages. As past Chairman of the IAATO Marine Committee (Int’l Assn. of Antarctic Tour Operators), he was a primary architect of the IAATO Emergency Contingency Plan for all vessels operating in Antarctica.

NEW TWIN SHIPS: National Geographic Endurance launching 2020, and National Geographic Resolution, launching 2021.

National Geographic Orion

After breakfast, we zipped to shore at Brown Bluff, a fascinating geologic area where we found hundreds of penguins. This is a colony which supported 100,000 pairs of Adélie penguins earlier in the season, but is now reaching the season’s end. There were a handful of Adélie chicks and many gentoo chicks testing the waters and exercising their wings. The beach shallows were kiddy pools filled with fluffy chicks sticking their heads into the water, wading in, and being pushed around by small incoming waves. We enjoyed watching their antics for a couple of hours, as well as finding a solitary fur seal, and taking a hike onto the edge of a glacier.”

— EMILY MOUNT Naturalist aboard National Geographic Explorer