Yes. you can take commercial tours to Antarctica from New Zealand, Australia, Chile or Argentina.
Any and all of the Antarctica is a 'tourist' attraction, because of its spectacular landscape and extreme environment.
Generally, a tourist would join a cruise ship tour with a company that sails re-enforced-hull boats to the continent.
In general, people visit Antarctica to experience the rich visual dessert available. Possibly, a tourist can leave a tour boat and walk on the continent.
In order to keep Antarctica pristine, responsible tour guides provide the list below to their clients.
The answer depends on the tour, its point of origin, its tour itinerary, and its ultimate destination. Tours can last for one week or several weeks.
Yes, all of Antarctica is a tourist attraction.
Yes, popular among tourists who can afford to pay their own way there on commercial tour boats.
Depending on how you get to Antarctica, your options may be different. As a tourist, you will be limited to participating in the activities devise by the tour operator. As a temporary worker or scientist studying temporarily in Antarctica, your reason for being there is to study the health of planet earth.
Most tourists visit Antarctica by tour boat. Activities on board include lectures, movies and so forth about Antarctica. There are excursions to the continent, where tourists can wander through penguin colonies and photograph breeding animals.
Tourists to Antarctica pay for all their hospitality services on board the boats that take them to the continent. There are no commercial services of any type on Antarctica. Tourists can 'set foot on the continent' when a tour boat operator loads tourists into Zodiac boats and motors them to land. Often, these excursions are to visit breeding penguin colonies on the beaches. Sometimes, with advanced reservations, a tour boat can motor tourists to visit a scientific research station. All tourist activities are dictated by weather, sea conditions and ice and are generally planned, but unpredictable in their completion.
You can consider any part of the continent that you can access, a 'tourist spot'. All attractions are formed by Mother Nature, and her work is always tourist-worthy.
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