Tourists burn a trail to Australian Antarctic outpost
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) An cheap canada goose uk isolated Australian outpost in remote Antarctica has Canada Goose Jackets become a popular destination for adventure Canada Goose online seeking tourists, as more tour operators put it on their itinerary for more than just researchers.
The 97 buy canada goose jacket cheap year old Mawson Hut, in Cape Denison at Commonwealth Bay, was home to Sir Douglas Mawson and his men during the 1911 14 Australasian canada goose coats Antarctic Expedition.
becoming a more popular tourist Canada Goose Parka destination, I think, because it part of an increasing trend in Antarctic tourism, Bruce Hull, senior environment canada goose officer at the Australia Antarctic Division, told Reuters.
the time the fifth ship arrives canada goose factory sale at Cape canada goose uk black friday Denison between the 20th and 23rd of January, I think the numbers will be canada goose outlet about 400 visitors for 2008/09, he added.
This Canada Goose Coats On Sale compares with about 260 visitors in 2006/07, and about 200 visitors in 2000/01.
The grueling sea and icy conditions canada goose black friday sale makes the six day passage across the Southern Ocean attractive to only the most daring type of traveler. Four companies, from Australia, New Zealand and Germany, go down canada goose clearance to Cape Denison and Hull said the https://www.forcanadagoose.ru ships posed no threat to the environment.
activities in Antarctica uk canada goose outlet are subject to an environmental assessment and each tourist expedition is subject to that, he said. the whole most tourist ventures are assessed as less than minor or transitory.
Mawson dubbed Cape Denison the of Blizzards because of its severe climate and the area canada goose coats on sale is only accessible for a ten week period, between mid December and Canada Goose Outlet mid February, when weather conditions are less inhospitable.
Chris Perkins, sales and marketing manager for Orion Expedition Cruises which runs trips uk canada goose to Cape Denison, said Mawson Hut was a part of Australian history that had now canada goose uk outlet become slightly more accessible.
becoming more popular because canada goose uk shop more operators are providing ways to get down there. Five or ten years ago it was very difficult, only research ships went there, he explained.
one of the most exclusive and difficult canadian goose jacket places on the planet to get to. Mawson Hut is part of Australian history, it preserved in ice basically, it kind of like buy canada goose jacket a time capsule, Perkins said.
The average age of visitors to Mawson Hut is canada goose clearance sale about 45 55 years old, and travelers need to be certified fit by a doctor to be able to go there.
There are also strict quarantine guidelines tourists are required to wash and Canada Goose sale disinfect their boots before they go ashore and clothes canada goose store and baggage Canada Goose Online must be checked for seeds and other agricultural items.
Since the beginning of the modern Antarctic tourism industry in 1969, the number of tourists in Antarctica cheap Canada Goose has grown from a few hundred to more than 30,000 each year, according to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators.