Links

Co-Travelers

• Digby Tarvin's Webpage - One of my fellow travelers, his webpage has many pictures of other Planetary Society Expeditions
• Planetary Society Antarctica Page

Sponsoring Societies/Companies
 

• Planetary Society - The official webpage of the Planetary Society, 100,000 members strong.  About 50 of us got together to visit Antarctica for this particular expedition
• Quark Expeditions - The company that organized the trip aboard the Akademik Sergey Vavilov
• Betchart Expeditions - The travel company that put together the entire trip, from the U.S., to Argentina, to Antarctica, and back again. And did a wonderfully smooth job of it, too!  They don't have their own website yet, but you can learn alot about them from the travel section on the webpage for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
 

Informational/Educational Sites
 

• Tierra del Fuego - The official Argentine Tourism site in Ushuaia
• ICAIR - International Center for Antarctic Information and Research
• Allied Whale Project at the College of the Atlantic - These are the folks tracking the humpback whales
• British Antarctic Survey
•     Vernadsky - An informational webpage at the BAS site about the Ukrainian Vernadsky Station in the Antarctic
• Kiev University Astronomy and Space Department - Has information on Antarctica and Vernadsky
• NASA Press Release about Adriana Ocampo's (one of our expedition leaders) work on the dinosaur-eliminating impact crater.
• Another NASA Press Release about Adriana Ocampo's work
• Scott Polar Research Institute, at the University of Cambridge
• PenguinCam - If you can run Realmedia on your computer, go here to see live pictures of penguins at the Sea World exhibit.
• Antarctica Online - Australian Antarctic Program Website
• Information and live pictures, once per hour, from Antarctic Stations: Mawson, Casey, Davis, and Macquarie Island.
 

Other Sites by Antarctic Tourists/Expeditioners
 

• Kerry & David's Antarctic Adventures - An Australian couple that visited the Antarctic in 1996 aboard the same ship (but on a different itinerary).
• Barb's Travel Journal: Antarctica - An interesting site by someone else who travelled to Antarctica on a similar itinerary.
• Humpback Video Clips - From a 1995 Antarctic expedition

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