Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic
Antarctica Direct: Sail and Fly the Drake Passage (10-Day Fly-Sail)
Antarctica
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Sailing Itinerary
Trip Details
Departs: December 20, 2027
Returns: December 29, 2027
Departure Port: Puerto Natales
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Your Ship
National Geographic Explorer
A 1982 Norwegian coastal ferry with an ice-class hull, now the fleet's hardest-working polar ship
Aboard
- Built at Ulstein Verft in 1982 and ran Norway's Hurtigruten coastal route for twenty-one years as Midnatsol
- Ice class 1A hull, ice-reinforced and fully stabilized
- Draft of 15 feet 7 inches, which is what gets her into the bays
- 99 staff and crew for 148 guests, including the naturalists and the undersea team
- Antarctica Direct voyages that cross the Drake one way and fly it the other
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