Cruises Departing Hobart
- Orion Expedition Cruises - 20 Night Scott & Shackleton's Antarctica
Hobart - Macquarie Island - Ross Sea Region - Campbell Island - Snares Islands - Bluff (Invercargill) Departs 14 January 2010. - Orion Expedition Cruises - 13 Night Sub-Antarctic Wildlife Adventure
Hobart - Macquarie Island - Campbell Island - Auckland Islands - Snares Islands - Stewart Island - Fjordland - Bluff (Invercargill). Departs 01 December 2009
Hobart Cruises
Tasmania is increasingly becoming used as a gateway to the Antarctic & Southern Ocean.
As Australia’s Antarctic headquarters and the location of a major Antarctic research centre, Hobart holds a pre-eminent place among Antarctica’s ‘gateway cities’.
These modern-day expeditions follow in the footsteps of Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson who led the 'Australasian Antarctic Expedition' in 1911.
It was from Hobart that Douglas Mawson set off on the ‘Australasian Antarctic Expedition’, whose scientific and geographical discoveries are second to none among ‘heroic’ expeditions.
Mawson again departed from Hobart in 1930 for his final Antarctic voyage, in which he discovered the land in which Australia later established its first Antarctic station, to which it gave his name.
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