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I love Antarctica. It's as close to visiting another planet as any of us will ever get. It's a life changing experience that only a very small number of people get to do, and a photographic challenge unlike any other. I've now visited Antarctica three times over the past seven years.
The problem for most people (and me) is that getting there means two days on-board ship crossing one of the world's roughest oceans, the Drake Passage. Then, at the end of the voyage there's another two days of rough seas getting back to the southern tip of South America before heading home.
Now I can offer an alternative. I have contracted withAntarctica XXIwho will  fly us from southern Chile directly to an Antarctic scientific base, and to our ship, theOcean Nova(the same excellent ship that I used on my last Antarctic Expedition). The flight takes 2 hours in a modern 4 engine commercial jet, instead of two and half stomach-churning days at sea, each way. 
Sorry – Sold Out

Two hours c...

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