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Gateway Attractions Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery - Islands to Ice Exhibition
Islands to Ice: The Great Southern Ocean & Antarctica
Islands to Ice is the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s new exhibition exploring the definitions, perceptions, mythology and motivations of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. It explores the places, the people, the creatures and the phenomena that make the great southern wilderness a world of its own. It is an invitation to journey south from Hobart across wild sapphire oceans to the crystal desert of the Antarctic - top - Sub-Antarctic Plant House
The sub-Antarctic Plant House is one of the most exciting and unusual collections of sub-Antarctic plants. It is based at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and it is nestled inside a small, specially constructed building. There’s no other collection like it anywhere in the world. Here, plants from sub-Antarctic islands (located in high southern latitudes) are displayed in a climatically-controlled environment, where chilly fogs and mists mirror the wet, cold conditions of their island homes. - top - Antarctic Midwinter Festival
The Antarctic Midwinter Festival is run over the mid-winter solstice period during June in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. This festival celebrates the link Tasmania has with the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean regions by encouraging Tasmanians and visitors to celebrate winter and learn more about the fascinating Antarctic island continent, which is almost twice the size of Australia. - top - Polar Pathways
Polar Pathways is a walk and interactive web tour experience that explores Tasmania’s Antarctic connections. It is a guide to some of Hobart’s and southern Tasmania’s unique Antarctic and Southern Ocean sites. Podcasts are now available for all sites. Download all or just your selected sites and listen on your computer or transfer the Podcasts to your MP3 player and listen as you tour the sites. - top - Commercial Operators Aurora Expeditions
Aurora Expeditions is a leading Australian-owned adventure and educational travel company that specialises in taking small groups of like-minded people to remote and exciting destinations.
Departing from Hobart, Tasmania or Bluff, New Zealand, our expedition ship Marina Svetaeva, will carry us across the Southern Ocean, stopping for landings on Australian and New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands en route to explore Deep Antarctica. - top - Orion Expedition Cruises
Orion Expedition Cruises runs luxury cruises to the Antarctic and Subantarctic islands departing from and arriving into Hobart, Tasmania. - top - Quark Expeditions
Quark Expeditions conducts polar cruises specialising in comfortable, but adventurous, expedition cruises to Antarctica and the Arctic. - top - Heritage Expeditions
Heritage Expeditions operates regular cruises to the sub-Antarctic islands, and the Ross Sea and Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica. - top - Ice Trek
Ice Trek leads adventure expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic. In addition, this company offers expedition planning services and sells specialist equipment. - top - Government Agencies Australian Antarctic Division - Non Government Activities
Non-government expeditions (primarily tourist ships) also visit the Antarctic. While commercial Antarctic tourism dates back to the late 1960s, there has been rapid growth since the late 1980s. This has led to a wide range of tourist and adventure activities.The following pages present an overview of some key issues relating to Antarctic tourism. - top - Tourism Tasmania: Antarctic Connections
Over 200 hundred years later Tasmania’s association with Antarctica has strengthened considerably. Hobart houses the scientific headquarters for many national Antarctic research institutions and supplies the Australian, French and Italian bases on Antarctica. - top - International Tourism International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators
The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (known as IAATO) is an industry member organisation founded in 1991 to advocate, promote and practise safe and environmentally responsible private-sector tourism operations and travel to Antarctica. - top - Antarctic Treaty Secretariat: Tourism
Antarctic Treaty System: Tourism and non Governmental Activities
- top - Antarctic Treaty Secretariat: Tourism
Antarctic Treaty System: Tourism and non Governmental Activities
- top - Visitor Information and Requirements Polar Updates - Summary of Antarctic Environmental Law
Polar Updates - Antarctica, is a comprehensive publication that summarises Antarctic environmental law in an accessible and simple format. A new edition of Polar Updates - Antarctica is published each year to keep up-to-date with changes in legislation and contact details. - top - Lonely Planet Guide - Antarctica
Antarctica is the last vast wilderness on the planet. Its gigantic icebergs, mountain ranges and the emptiness of the polar plateau boggle the mind, while its weather curdles the blood. It's beautiful and serene, savage and violent, and its scale is almost unfathomable.
Lonely Planet is passionate about bringing people together, about understanding our world, and about people sharing experiences that enrich everyone's lives. We aim to inspire people to explore, have fun, and travel often. And we strive to provide travellers everywhere with reliable, comprehensive and independent travel information. - top - University Subject KSA301 Antarctic Tourism
KSA301 Antarctic Tourism
The goal of Antarctic Tourism is to give students a broad understanding of both the fine nature of the Antarctic as a destination, and the regulatory regime managing the industry. It is presented as a case study of a high cost, niche tourist destination. The Antarctic is isolated, inhospitable and subject to uncertain jurisdiction. The Antarctic legal regime is specifically framed to deal with peaceful scientific endeavour, yet there are more tourists visiting the Antarctic than there are scientists working there. The unit explores this phenomenon through a series of 13 interactive lectures presented online via the WebCT platform. The lectures will explore the region's history, its values, the nature of the industry, the special characteristics of the 3-tiered management regime, the comprehensive environmental requirements and the potential conflicts this poses.
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