Author: Rebecca Porritt

The polar fleet has always been at the forefront of innovation when it comes to expedition cruise ships – something that can be most visibly seen in its rapid adoption of X-Bow ship designs, with their unique profile designed to ease a ship’s passage through rough waters. I recently experienced my first voyage aboard one […]

It’s probably the most iconic voyage in polar history: the small boat journey that Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made in the James Caird to South Georgia in 1916, following the loss of his ship Endurance. But their fight for survival, and to rescue the crew left behind on Elephant Island didn’t end […]

The seas around Antarctica teem with life, from penguins by the thousand to enormous humpback whales gorging themselves on krill. But what supports these ecological riches? Phytoplankton, that’s what: tiny single-celled plants converting sunlight into chemical energy to feed the ocean, sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at the same time. On my most […]