The National Geographic Explorer cruise ship sails through icy waters filled with small ice chunks. The ship features a black hull with a bright yellow stripe and a multi-level white superstructure. Passengers line the deck against a background of snowy icebergs.

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Antarctica Direct: Sail and Fly the Drake Passage (10-Day Fly-Sail)

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Departs: March 5, 2028

Returns: March 14, 2028

Departure Port: Puerto Natales

Ship: National Geographic Explorer

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National Geographic Explorer

A 1982 Norwegian coastal ferry with an ice-class hull, now the fleet's hardest-working polar ship

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  • 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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