Crystal has today opened reservations for the entire 2023/early 2024 deployment of its purpose-built expedition ship,
Crystal Endeavor. Headlining the local program are two $53,000 per person three-week-long explorations of Antarctica from Australia and New Zealand.
With a capacity of just 200 passengers, demand for
Crystal Endeavor‘s latest deployment release is expected to be hotly contested by travellers seeking one-of-a-kind explorations.
There are 27 expeditions around the globe available on the brand-new all-suite yacht, ranging from 10- to 28-nights duration. For a limited time, guests who book early can secure a cabin with a reduced deposit of 15% (normally 25%).
Options range from expeditions to the Northeast Passage, Russian High Arctic or Faroe Islands to remote offshore islands including Brazil’s Arquipélago dos Abrolhos and Uruguay’s Isla de Lobos Nature Reserve. Guests can cruise to Andalusia, Morocco and the Côte d’Azur, or enjoy unique explorations b
It is the largest military alliance on the planet, it is more than 70 years old and, for many within NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), it is only just getting going.
A Cold War creation, NATO was established in 1949 as a bulwark against the colossal Soviet armies based in Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War.
This system of US-led collective security, initially consisting of 10 Western European countries, Canada and the United States, helped avert any thoughts by the Soviet Union (USSR) of expanding further westward, helping maintain an uneasy, tension-fraught peace in Europe for decades.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson signs the Atlantic defence treaty for the United States on April 4, 1949, as Vice President Alben W. Barkley, left, and President Harry Truman watch on [File: AP Photo]But NATO has struggled to redefine its role and relevance since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, despite expanding its domains to include outer space and cyberspac
A recently released report on the 2018 grounding of a Russian ship in the Canadian Arctic points out the many dangers of a coming shipping boom in an increasingly ice-free Arctic, including the lack of reliable navigational charts and crews inexperienced in polar waters.
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Douglas Hunter re-traces the search for the Northwest Passage through the Arctic, and almost gets lost among the spectral boatmen and copycat mutineers that .