Polar adventures: Be inspired to travel to the ends of the earth By Features Reporter Published: 09:26, 03 March 2021
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Itâs hard to make any great predictions about foreign travel over the next few months, but one thing is for certain: tourists are set to be bolder in their choice of destination, with bigger trips in store.
Bucket-list adventures and once-in-a-lifetime escapades will be topping wish lists as we seek to make up for travel time lost in the past year. Already, tour operators have seen increased interest in itineraries to Antarctic and the Arctic, with some companies even releasing trips for 2023.
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Chile earthquake: Authorities trigger national panic by mistakenly sending tsunami warning after Antarctica quake CNN 1/25/2021 Story by Reuters © JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images A warning sign painted on the street reading Tsunami Evacuation in La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile, taken on June 11, 2015.
Authorities in Chile have expressed regret for spreading panic with a mistaken tsunami warning calling for people to get out of coastal areas following an earthquake in Antarctica.
On Saturday evening at 8:36 p.m., the country s interior ministry tweeted a warning that a magnitude 7.1 earthquake had struck, 216 kilometers (about 134 miles) northeast of the O Higgins Chilean scientific base at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. In its tweet, the ministry called for coastal regions of Antarctica to be evacuated due to a tsunami risk.
Chile earthquake: Authorities trigger national panic by mistakenly sending tsunami warning after Antarctica quake CNN 1/25/2021 Story by Reuters © JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images A warning sign painted on the street reading Tsunami Evacuation in La Serena, Coquimbo, Chile, taken on June 11, 2015.
Authorities in Chile have expressed regret for spreading panic with a mistaken tsunami warning calling for people to get out of coastal areas following an earthquake in Antarctica.
On Saturday evening at 8:36 p.m., the country s interior ministry tweeted a warning that a magnitude 7.1 earthquake had struck, 216 kilometers (about 134 miles) northeast of the O Higgins Chilean scientific base at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. In its tweet, the ministry called for coastal regions of Antarctica to be evacuated due to a tsunami risk.