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ÆRIA ExpeditionsImagine stepping onto the deck with a coffee as a wall of Arctic mountains emerges through the morning mist. Your camera is ready, your boots are…
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ÆRIA ExpeditionsAurora Expeditions was founded in Sydney in 1991 by Greg Mortimer OAM, the first Australian to summit Mount Everest, and his wife Margaret Mortim…
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ÆRIA ExpeditionsLindblad Expeditions did not enter the expedition cruise market. It created it. On January 23, 1966, Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first tourist exp…
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ÆRIA ExpeditionsSwan Hellenic invented cultural expedition cruising. Not approximately, not arguably: in 1954, the company’s co-founder Henry Swan was approached…
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ÆRIA ExpeditionsAtlas Ocean Voyages launched its first ship in 2021 and has positioned itself in the gap between adventure-focused expedition operators and ultra…
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ÆRIA ExpeditionsLE PONANT is the only luxury cruise line in the world that sails exclusively under the French flag, crewed by French officers and shaped by the p…
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ÆRIA ExpeditionsScenic is one of the most unusual stories in modern luxury travel: an Australian entrepreneur who quit his accountancy studies to sell coach tour…
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ÆRIA ExpeditionsQuark Expeditions is the longest-established and most decorated specialist in polar expedition cruising, with over three decades of firsts in Ant…
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