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Cruises in Antarctica

Saffire Freycinet, Coles Bay, Tasmania.

Cruising

Be an in-betweener

Sally Macmillan If you love sea days rather than visiting a port every day, have time to take a cruise of 15 or more days and are looking for a bargain, a repositioning cruise could be just the thing.

Cruising

Serving up more

The pool on Lido deck on the way to New Caledonia onboard Pacific Dawn cruise ship, January 2008. Photograph by Ruth Duncan. SHD TRAVEL FEBRUARY 17 CRUISE.

Joanna Hall To the uninitiated, cruising may appear a one-dimensional kind of holiday, floating on the seas somewhere exotic with many people, eating too much and sunbathing with a cocktail in hand.

Cruising

Journey to bird central

A pair of erect-crested penguins and a fur seal on the Antipodes Islands.

John Huxley joins a shipload of experts, enthusiasts and 'penguin people' on a mission in the Sub-Antarctic Islands.

Antarctica

Into the deep freeze

Surrounded by penguins and pack ice, Robert Upe hears tales of polar endurance in the Weddell Sea.

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