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QUARK
Quark Expeditions has been one of the leading innovators and operators of expedition cruises, especially in polar regions, since 1991. The company has pioneered and developed a concept of fantastically adventurous journeys in first class comfort on powerful, polar icebreakers.
Many "First-Ever" passenger voyages have been successfully operated by Quark: the first Weddell Sea voyage, the first Circumnavigation of Antarctica, the first "Far Side" of Antarctica voyage, the first North Pole voyage, the first transpolar voyage through the North Pole, the first Northeast Passage and the first Circumnavigation of the Arctic are all part of this tradition.
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During 2002 Quark Expeditions' journey entitled The Great Explorers: Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott, aboard the Finnish-built icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, ran from 19 January to 12 February 2002. Travelling from Lyttleton, at the south end of New Zealand, to Hobart in Tasmania via McMurdo Sound, it visited parts of Antarctica bordering the Ross Sea familiar from the stories of Scott and Shackleton, also taking in Campbell Island and Macquarie Island en route.
Further expeditions were mounted in 2003 and 2004's expeditions included The Weddell Sea Adventure and, during November-December 2004, Solar Eclipse: The Far Side of Antarctica with Crozet and Kerguelen Islands. Others included Wonders of the Ross Sea - Mount Erebus, Ross Ice Shelf & McMurdo Sound;; The Great Explorers - Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott; and Explorers Cruise 3: In the Wake of Shackleton
During January 2005 a Quark expedition also visited Russia's Far East and Wrangel Island.
Quark Expeditions are based at 980 Post Road, Darien, CT 06820, (Connecticut), USA. Tel +1-203-656-0499 Fax +1-203-655-6623) and 19A Crendon Street, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 6LJ, UK Tel +44 (0)1494-464080 Fax +44-(0)1494-449739.
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