I spent 5 days on a Northern Lights cruise — it didn't go to plan
Fingertips burning, I can barely hold my phone steady as Arctic wind whips daggers across my cheeks. My thermal vest has dislodged from the waistband of my trousers, exposing naked skin to the biting ...
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HMS Endurance to the rescue
The cruise ship MS Nordkapp had sustained damage to her hull as she transited out of Deception Island through Neptunes Bellows and requested the support of Endurance's dive team. Overnight ...
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Passengers of stranded cruise taken to Ushuaia
Last Tuesday MS Nordkapp with 76 crew and 295 passengers suffered the mishap just off Deception Island, an estimated 120 kilometers from the Antarctica peninsula. However MS Nordkapp managed to ...
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Astro Bob: North to the aurora!
It's all about location. I'm traveling up the coast of Norway on the Hurtigruten ship MS Nordkapp, working as a lecturer for the Road Scholar Astronomy Above the Arctic Circle cruise. Big blasts ...
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I spent 5 days on a Northern Lights cruise — it didn’t go to plan
I had been invited to chase the elusive aurora borealis on a cruise with Hurtigruten, and this was the final stop of the MS Nordkapp’s voyage from Trondheim to the Arctic Circle. It had been ...