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ANAN 75
Wednesday, 19 June 2002
News in this edition:
75-01. Initial schedules point to potential new Peninsula landings record.
75-02. Operators may face challenge in maintaining 'wilderness' experience.
75-03. Record South Georgia ship visits, tourist numbers, anticipated.
75-04. Low-key but interesting tour season in Pacific and Indian Ocean sectors.
75-05. Wide-ranging agenda for Thirteenth IAATO annual meeting.
75-06. No sale yet for 'Sir Hubert Wilkins'.
76-07. Coming Events Relevant to Non-Government Activities.
INITIAL SCHEDULES POINT TO POTENTIAL NEW PENINSULA LANDINGS RECORD
[ANAN-75/01]
A new record for tourist landings in the Antarctic Peninsula region could be set during the 2002-03 austral summer if all currently advertised tourist voyages offering landings proceed, and interest in Antarctic visits remains close to the levels of the last few years.
With just under 16,500 Peninsula ship-based ‘landing’ berths on offer from sales outlets around the world, the existing record of around 13,600 landings set in 1999-2000 (ANAN-26/01, 19 July 2000) should be broken if currently scheduled voyages proceed and average 2002-03 voyage load levels across the industry exceed 82 per cent, a relatively low level.
Passenger loads over the last two Peninsula seasons for which data are available (1999-2001) averaged 85 per cent, while information from Ushuaia and anecdotal evidence suggests that levels were similar in 2001-02 despite the effects on world travel post September 11 last year (ANAN-56/01, 26 September 2001).
Signs that a record tourist season for the Peninsula may be ahead are in line with predictions made by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) in recent years, and come as Antarctic Treaty nations are preparing for ‘detailed discussions’ on tourism at the 25th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM-XXV) next September (ANAN-52/01, 1 August 2001). The number of tourists visiting the Peninsula has more than doubled over the past decade, and activities undertaken have diversified significantly (ANAN-50/01, 4 July 2001).
Data collated from industry advertisements, brochures and web sites, indicate that 17 tourist ships could conduct up to a total of 123 separate 'tourist landing' voyages in the Peninsula region in the coming season. Those trips, which normally try to provide their clients with two shore landings each day while in the Peninsula area, will be made primarily from ports in southern South America or the Falkland Islands.
The ships, which are operated by thirteen tour companies from five separate nations and have passenger capacities that vary from just under 50 to around 550, will be in Antarctic waters in the period between10 November 2002 and 14 March 2003. Six of them will also be undertaking other voyages in the South Atlantic region but those operations will focus only on sub-Antarctic South Georgia (see ANAN-75/03 following).
Vessels that will be making their first visits to the Peninsula in 2002-03 are the ‘Nordnorge’ (ANAN-51/07, 18 July 2001) and the newly named and refurbished ‘World Discoverer’ (ANAN-72/03, 8 May 2002). Between them, they are to conduct 15 Peninsula voyages and have the potential to carry up to 3,800 tourists south, although the actual figure will probably be lower.
Ships returning to the Peninsula in 2002-03 after a break of one season are the ‘Lyubov Orlova’ (110 passengers, 9 Peninsula visits advertised for 2002-03), and the three-masted square-rigged barque 'Europa' (52/2) which made it first, and so-far only, visit in the same season (ANAN-65/08, 30 January 2002).
‘Orlova’ is being used by US-based Quark Expeditions instead of the ‘Kapitan Dranitsyn’, as the latter’s icebreaking capabilities are rarely required in the Peninsula region proper and she is much more expensive to operate. Orlova’s previous operations in the region were as a charter to the now defunct Canadian companies Marine Expeditions Inc. and Marine Expeditions (ANAN-49/01, 20 June 2001).
Twelve of the ships listed for landing operations in Peninsula waters in 2002-03 were there last season, and most operated there for many years before that. Those vessels, which between them could land between 10,000 and 11,500 people on shore during the season, are: ‘Akademic Ioffe’ (110 /10); ‘Bremen’ (164/7); ‘Clipper Adventurer’ (122/9); ‘Endeavour’ (110/7); ‘Explorer’ (100/9); ‘Grigory Mikheev’ (46/9); ‘Hanseatic’ (184/5); ‘Marco Polo’ (450-550/5); ‘Professor Multanovskiy’ (49/8); ‘Professor Molchanov’ (52/10); ‘Polar Pioneer’ (54/8); and ‘Polar Star’ (98/9).
The seventeenth tour ship that is expected to make landings is the ‘Kapitan Khlebnikov’, which is to visit the Peninsula briefly during its circumnavigation of the Antarctic continent. It is scheduled to rendezvous with the ‘Professor Multanovskiy’ at Deception Island on 7 January to transfer passengers and take on stores and other supplies, before travelling down the Peninsula and heading westwards towards the Ross Sea (see ANAN-75/04 following).
Of the 17 ships, eight are registered in Russia, five in the Bahamas, and one each in Barbados, Liberia, Norway and the UK.
In addition to tour ships, an unknown number of commercially operated yachts conducting perhaps 20 to 25 voyages between them are expected to land several hundred people in the Peninsula area.
Also, three large cruise liners, ‘Amsterdam’, ‘Crystal Symphony’ and ‘Ryndam’, are to make one voyage each to the Peninsula in the period between late January and mid-February. Their passengers, which may exceed 3,000 all up, will only sightsee, however, as no shore landings from them are proposed (ANAN-69/02, 27 March 2002).
Should all activities currently planned for the Peninsula region in 2002-03 proceed, between 16,000 and 18,000 non-government visitors could experience the Antarctic Peninsula region by sea over the 125-day season, although one-in-six of them will not set foot on shore.
Of the 20 tourist ships involved, all but three are currently operated by member companies of IAATO. Only two commercial yacht operators are currently affiliated with the tour body. IAATO plans to discuss ways in which it can encourage more yacht operators to join its ranks at its annual meeting early next month (see ANAN-75/05 following).
Initial tour ship schedules suggest that operators may face a challenge to ensure separations in Antarctic Peninsula landing operations during the 2002-03 austral summer, even if sea-ice conditions do not pose limitations as they did earlier this year.
Of the record 20 tour ships listed for operations (see ANAN-75/01 preceding), over half are likely to be in Peninsula waters simultaneously during five separate periods in the 125-day season, and careful planning will therefore be needed if the much-desired 'wilderness' experience for tourists is to be consistently achieved.
The majority of tour ship voyages to the Peninsula ply the waters between its northern tip and the islands at the end of the spectacular Lemaire Channel, just 400 km to the south. That region, which includes the off-shore South Shetland Islands, offers a wide range of visitor experiences and yet is relatively small in area. It is ideal for short voyages of 8-10 days total length which are the industry's key revenue-earner (ANAN- 34/07, 8 November 2000). Its relatively small size can, however, become a problem if a large number of ships all seek to make landings there at the same time.
Most tour companies normally aim to provide their passengers with separate shore landings each morning and afternoon, provided weather and other conditions allow. Companies have worked for many years to try and ensure only one vessel lands tourists at any one site at the same time, the aim being to offer tourists a truer 'wilderness experience' whilst on shore.
In order to achieve that aim, landing intentions have for some time been coordinated between ships each evening via radio and satellite-based systems, the Tourism Board of Tierra del Fuego (INFUETUR) in Ushuaia, Argentina, also providing key support to tour vessels on a near real-time basis. Overall, these systems have worked reasonably well and despite the pressures on them, expedition leaders have in the main, cooperated constructively in managing daily arrangements.
The task can become difficult when, as happened earlier this year, sea-ice conditions limit potential operational areas (ANAN-64/07, 16 January 2002), resulting in congestion of ships at the more popular locations. Congestion can also occur if a particularly large number of vessels are in the same general region simultaneously. The 1999-2000 'Millennium' season is an example of the latter situation, when 15 vessels were in Peninsula waters over the New Year. This led to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) commencing coordination of daily location visits some six months in advance of that period (ANAN-2/02, 18 August 1999).
Data collated from industry sources for 2002-03 suggest that at least 20 tourist vessels could make some 126 separate voyages to the Antarctic Peninsula region in 2002-03, and that a new record for shore landings there may be set even if average load level averages are below that of recent seasons (see ANAN-75/01 preceding).
Analysis of individual company plans released to date shows that up to a dozen of the ships will be together in the Peninsula area over five separate periods, spread across December, January and February. While that is still short of the 15 vessels during the Millennium New Year period, that season only saw a single period of congestion that lasted only 4-5 days, not multiple peaks as seems likely for the coming season.
The busiest period of the coming southern summer in the Peninsula appears to be the seventeen days from 28 January, the peak being on the 31 January when 12 ships are likely to be present. Either 11 or 12 vessels will be there each day between 31 January and 6 February, reducing to six for the next four days, then building to 11 again on 10 February as ships cycle back into the region from 'gateway' ports to the north. By the fifteenth though, ship numbers should fall below five for the first time in 19 days.
Two of the vessels operating during that peak will be the large cruise ships 'Amsterdam' and 'Ryndam', the latest schedule on the web site of their operator US-based Holland America Lines indicating that their three-day visits will now overlap for a day instead of taking place one after the other (ANAN-67/01, 27 February 2002). On 1 February, the overlap day, 'Amsterdam' is listed for a cruise-only visit to Deception Island, while 'Ryndam' will be somewhere to the south, near the US national program station Palmer on Anvers Island. With a combined maximum passenger capacity of just under 2,700, on overlap day both ships could be carrying three-and-a-half times the total number of fare-paying clients on all the other nine smaller tour vessels that should be in the Peninsula region at that time. On a number of days during the height of the season in late January/early February, when the three large cruise ships are not present, the smaller cruise ships present in the Peninsula area could be carrying 1,200 to 1,600 tourists between them.
Other busy periods next season are around 14 December (11 ships currently listed), over the New Year (11 ships), around 20 January (10 ships), and on 20 February (10 ships), although unlike the January-February peak-period, the peak on those occasions only lasts 2-3 days rather than stretching out over a week or more.
Few companies specify precisely where they hope to make landings on a particular voyage until the expedition leader provides his or her intentions to INFUETUR on the day a voyage commences.
While it is not possible this early in the year to determine exactly which Peninsula landings sites are to be visited by a particular vessel on a given day, the nature of tour-ship operations, and the advertised cruise itineraries, make it possible to infer which vessels will be in the Peninsula area on any day, and to undertake a basic analysis of ship-visit loadings.
'Scheduling of ships at landing sites' is on the agenda for discussion at IAATO's annual meeting which is to be held early next month (see ANAN-75/05 following).
Tourist ship visits to sub-Antarctic South Georgia, and the number of people who are expected to land there from them, could reach an all-time high during the 2002-03 austral summer. Like the Antarctic Peninsula, there are several periods when up to five tour ships will be at the island together (see ANAN-75/02 preceding), however, the island's managers are confident that processes are in place to manage any significant increase in activity that may occur.
Information currently available suggests that there could be up to 44 tour-ship visits to South Georgia in 2002-03, up one third on the actual figure for 2001-02. The first tourists are scheduled to arrive at the island on 1 November and the last on 12 March. There will be at least one tour vessel visiting the island for three-quarters of the days in that period.
The current record for tourist landings was in the Millennium season of 1999-2000 when 34 ship-visits were made and 2,718 passengers, plus a large number of staff and ship's crew, went ashore. The combined total passenger capacity of currently advertised 2002-03 voyages to the island is just under 4,800, a number that suggests a new visitor record for the island would be set if all voyages proceed, and if an average passenger loading across the season as low as 60 per cent is achieved.
Of the 20 ships that are to visit the Antarctic Peninsula region in 2002-03, fifteen of them that have passenger capacities between 49 and around 550, are listed for trips to South Georgia (see ANAN-75/01 preceding). Those Peninsula ships not scheduled to go to the island are the three large cruise vessels 'Amsterdam', 'Crystal Symphony' and 'Ryndam', first time Antarctic visitor 'Nordnorge', and the 'Kapitan Khlebnikov' which is making only a brief visit to the South Atlantic sector (see ANAN-75/04 following).
About a third of the 126 voyages to the Antarctic Peninsula have visits to South Georgia on their itinerary, a proportion that is similar to the actuals of the last few seasons. In addition, operator publicity indicates that four others are to conduct 'South Georgia only' journeys, while a further three visits are also scheduled for ships on the way south at the beginning of the season, and two on the way north at season's end.
The ships 'Bremen', Professor Multanovskiy', 'Polar Pioneer', and the three-masted barque 'Europa' are conducting the 'South Georgia-only' voyages, while the 'Endeavour', 'Hanseatic' and 'Explorer', are listed for either pre- or post-season visits or both. Shackleton crossing attempts of the island are planned from 'Multanovskiy' in November and 'Polar Pioneer' in early March (ANAN-61/07, 5 December 2001).
Most ships conduct their landing programs in the embayments and off-shore islands along South Georgia's 170km-long northern coast. During the four-and-a-half month season ahead though, five ships are expected to be in coastal waters simultaneously over four separate periods.
The first of these periods is in late November/early December, the second in mid-January, the third about a week after that, and the last as the season is drawing to an end in early March. Between 350 and 420 tourists could be on the ships involved at those times, except for the late January event when the 'Marco Polo' is one of the vessels (ANAN-63/01, 2 January 2002). On that occasion the number could exceed 900 over several days.
In 2000-01 there were three periods when either five or six ship visits overlapped and the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI)and tour operators, who are aware of the implications for visitor management, worked to manage the issues involved in the lead up to, and during, summer operations.
Generally, at Grytviken and most other sites on the island, no more than two shore visits are allowed there on any one day, however, at Albatross and Prion Islands only one vessel landing a day is permitted. In addition, only tour ships whose operators are members of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) are permitted to make landings at sites outside Grytviken; 'Marco Polo' is expected to be the only ship not in this category during 2002-03 as its operator, US-based Orient Lines, is not a member of the tour body.
According to researcher Sally Poncet, who has conducted tourism research on the island for the GSGSSI over the past three years as part of the Environmental Baseline Survey project (ANAN-35/09, 22 November 2000), the levels of visitation up to and including the 2000-2001 season have not posed any significant management problems. She says that should visitor numbers increase substantially in 2002-03, the pre-season management process that is conducted in September-October each year should be capable of identifying any potential problem areas well before the first ship is scheduled to arrive on 1 November.
Following its third visit of the season to South Georgia in late January, the German-operated tour ship 'Bremen' is scheduled to make a two-day visit to the South Sandwich Islands, to the south-east of South Georgia, on 24-25 January. Information currently available suggests that that is the only tour ship visit planned to that island group during the 2002-03 austral summer.
Tour ship operations in the Pacific and Indian Ocean sectors in 2002-03 will, in comparison with the South American region, be relatively low-key. However, a planned circumnavigation voyage of the continent and the potential for heavy ice conditions in the Ross Sea mean that the season in these sectors will be an interesting one.
Four ships carrying tourists are expected to operate across the two ocean sectors, although only two will be visiting both areas as well as attempting to reach coastal regions of the continent.
Of the two continental visitors, the 112-passenger icebreaker 'Kapitan Khlebnikov' has two voyages scheduled: the first a complete two-part circumnavigation of the Antarctic continent via Deception Island which will leave and return to Lyttleton, New Zealand (ANAN-50/02, 4 July 2001); and the second a visit to the coast of Victoria Land and the area around Ross Island. The ship will also visit sub-Antarctic islands to the south of New Zealand several times on the way south to, and north from, the continent.
On the circumnavigation, 'Khlebnikov' hopes to enter the Ross Sea from the east in late January, commencing its visit there at the Bay of Whales before heading for Ross Island and the coast of Victoria Land. Its second visit should see it in that area in mid-February.
The other visitor to the Ross Sea will be the 46-passenger ice-strengthened 'Akademic Shokalskiy' which has two voyages scheduled at about the same time as 'Khlebnikov'. Given further recent calvings of large icebergs from the Ross Ice-Shelf, it may again be a challenging sea-ice season in the Ross Sea (ANAN-61/02, 5 December 2001) and Khlebnikov's icebreaking capability could be useful to both vessels should conditions prove particularly difficult.
While the icebreaker will use helicopters to support tour operations, brochures indicate that the operators of smaller vessel, Heritage Expeditions of New Zealand, again hope to use all-terrain vehicles for passenger deployments if sea-ice conditions prove suitable, particularly on the January voyage (ANAN-46/03, 9 May 2001).
A maximum of 300 tourists are expected to visit the Ross Sea on the two ships next season, while visitor numbers along the coast of East Antarctica and Marie Byrd Land are likely to be in the order of 100.
Like 'Khlebnikov', 'Shokalskiy' is scheduled to visit sub-Antarctic islands south of New Zealand during the Ross Sea voyages, but it will also conduct a single 11-day voyage to Auckland, Campbell, Macquarie and Snares Islands at the end of its season in late February/early March. All up, between 500 and 600 tourists could visit those islands in the coming season, a number similar to that of recent years.
'Shokalskiy' normally makes two dedicated voyages to sub-Antarctic islands south of New Zealand before embarking on visits to the Ross Sea. The ship will only conduct one such trip next season as for the first time it will start its southern hemisphere operations with a visit to sub-Antarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean in late November early December. That voyage is to commence from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion on 14 November and end at Albany in south-west Australia on 14 December (ANAN-59/05, 14 November 2001).
Of the other two ships listed for tourist-related operations in the Pacific or Indian Ocean sectors, the French government-chartered vessel 'Marion Dufrense' is expected, as in past seasons, to confine its operations to French sub-Antarctic islands in the South Indian Ocean (ANAN-7/05, 27 October 1999). In addition, the German-owned tour ship 'Hanseatic' is to visit sub-Antarctic Islands south of New Zealand before heading for the Antarctic Peninsula via Peter I Island in the far south-eastern corner of the Pacific Ocean.
Next month's Thirteenth annual meeting of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) is set to discuss a wide range of policy, operational, business and administrative matters. Issues listed on the meeting's agenda include safe and environmentally sound operation of tourist operations, the future of Antarctic tourism, and ways in which more commercial yacht operators can be attracted to IAATO membership.
At least 60 people from some 25 member-companies, based in a dozen nations, as well as several government personnel and others, are to take part in the meeting in the UK from 1-4 July. The gathering is to be held at the offices of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, U.K. and the nearby headquarters of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), managers of the UK national program in Antarctica.
Work on the development of guidelines for site visits (ANAN-51/03, 18 July 2001), wildlife watching, kayaking activities, camping on-shore, scuba diving, mountaineering, boot washing and 'minimum' medical capabilities for ships (ANAN-64/10, 16 January 2002), are listed for discussion. What is termed a 'redefinition' of IAATO's By Law that no more than 100 tour-ship passengers be allowed on shore at any one time is also up for consideration, although it is not known at this time just what that item entails.
Consideration is to be given to the establishment of a working group on the cumulative impacts that may occur from regular visitation by tourists to Antarctic visitor sites. The recently released report of the June 2000 meeting on cumulative impacts, organised by IAATO and two US government bodies, recommended that an "independent steering group" of appropriate experts be established to further consider the issues involved (ANAN-70/10, 10 April 2002).
The meeting agenda also lists a number of operational matters that IAATO has been considering on a long-term basis. These include contingencies for emergencies, medical evacuation arrangements, communication between vessels, visits to stations, and landing protocols. These are items that IAATO has been considering on an on-going basis for sometime at its meetings. The proposed discussion on scheduling of ships at landing sites may reflect problems experienced in 2001-02, although it is also timely given the possible scheduling complexities in the season ahead in the Antarctic Peninsula region (see ANAN-75/02 preceding).
The "French tax" at Dumont d'Urville (ANAN-66/03, 13 February 2002), which has troubled some operators, and the Ross Sea historic huts, one-third of whose annual budget has in recent years come from tourist visits (ANAN-67/02, 27 February 2002), are also mentioned for discussion in the station visit section.
Applications for full membership status are to be considered from five current Provisional members: Holland America Lines (US), Polar Star Expeditions (Norway), Antarctic Horizons (Australia), Golden Fleece Expeditions (Falkland Islands), and Ocean Frontiers (Australia)(see ANAN-75/06 following).
The day at BAS on 3 July should be a busy one, presentations being listed include: tourist statistics for the 2001-02 season (ANAN-23/02, 7 June 2000); BAS's policy on tourism; South Georgia tourism; the recently-formed South Georgia Association (ANAN-62/11, 19 December 2001); the new South Georgia web site (ANAN-70/07, 10 April 2002); Port Lockroy and the future of abandoned British stations in the Antarctic Peninsula region; work on a management strategy for Deception Island (ANAN-69/05, 27 March 2002); tourism regulation and the Antarctic Treaty System; and a panel discussion on the future of Antarctic tourism.
The last item will, as in recent years, also be raised at members-only sessions, and is a particularly important item this year given that Antarctic Treaty nations plan to focus on tourism issues at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in September (ANAN-52/01, 1 August 2001).
The full agenda for the meeting has been made available by IAATO on its web site at: http://www.iaato.org/13thmeeting.html. Some of the meeting sessions are for IAATO members only, while others are open to interest parties, although those who attend must have a prior invitation. Contact for the meeting is IAATO Executive Secretary Denise Landau (iaato@iaato.org).
As many as fifteen of the attendees at IAATO-2002 are also expected to attend an IAATO-sponsored oil-spill training program arranged for 5 July (ANAN-74/02, 5 June 2002).
Australian company Ocean Frontiers, which has its expedition ship 'Sir Hubert Wilkins' on the market, says that interest in the ship has been "quite strong", although last week's original self-imposed deadline for disposal of the vessel passed without a sale. The vessel has been for sale for $US1m since March this year (ANAN-68/01, 13 March 2002).
Ocean Frontiers' principal Don McIntyre told ANAN that after being tied up in Hobart, Australia, since February, his ship left there last week to support a private diving program in the Philippines. "We postponed the sale one month before tenders closed [on 14 June] so no one was actually able to submit their offers". The vessel is "still technically for sale", but anyone interested in the ship will not be able to inspect her until October when she completes work in the Philippines.
While he was unable to go into details for commercial reasons, McIntyre said that inquiries about his 37-m ship had come from "private expedition and commercial groups". According to him, some of those are interested in using the vessel for activities in the Antarctic region, although just what the nature of those high latitude operations are, and who is proposing them, has not been made public.
'Sir Hubert Wilkins' and the yacht 'Arctos', which earlier this year circumnavigated Antarctica (ANAN-70/03, 10 April 2002), are for sale because "the projects they were involved in have been completed" and not because Ocean Frontiers is "pressured to sell by financial constraints" according to McIntyre.
He says that his company still intends to organise further activities in Antarctica, hopefully commencing in 2003-04, and currently hopes to announce details in October, after 'Sir Hubert Wilkins' completes its support work in the Philippines. McIntyre says that because of this, his company plans to remain a member of the International Association of Antarctica Tourist Operators (IAATO), although it will not be sending a representative to IAATO's annual meeting early next month (see ANAN-75/05 preceding) because it is "deeply involved in the [Philippines] expedition". The company is continuing with its application for full membership status of IAATO. Ocean Frontiers has been a Provisional member of the tour body since June 2000.
Sir Hubert Wilkins's voyages to Antarctica over the last two austral summers were made under the flag of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu (ANAN-21/01, 10 May 2000), however, its registry was recently transferred to that of Australia.
Please forward notice of events via e-mail to: tourism@aad.gov.au. Up-dates are made to ANAN's web site at: http://www.antdiv.gov.au/goingsouth/tourism/Research/BibConf/Confer/default.asp as soon as new information comes to hand.
YEAR 2002
1-4 July (Cambridge, U.K.)
IAATO year 2002 annual meeting.
Contact: iaato@iaato.org (Denise Landau)(invitation required).
5 July (Southampton, U.K.)
Oil pollution control course for IAATO members (ANAN-74/02, 5 June 2002).
Contact: iaato@iaato.org (Denise Landau)
5-19 July (Shanghai, China)
COMNAP XIV (including the sub-committee on Tourism and Non-Government Operations).
Contact: jsayers@comnap.aq (Jack Sayers).
15-26 July (Shanghai, China).
XXVII SCAR (Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research).
10-20 September (Warsaw, Poland)
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting XXV
YEAR 2003
4-11 January (South Geographic Pole)
High Plateau Marathon (ANAN-65/02, 30 January 2002).
Contact: general@adventure-network.com
3 March (King George Island, Antarctica)
Sixth Antarctic Marathon and Half Marathon (ANAN-68/09, 13 March 2002).
Contact: marathon@shore.net (Thom Gilligan).
July [Dates to be set] (Seattle, United States).
IAATO year 2003 annual meeting.
Contact: iaato@iaato.org (Denise Landau)(invitation required).
24 November (Queen Mary and Dronning Maud Land regions).
Total solar eclipse (See ANAN-61/09, 5 December 2001).
Next edition issued on Wednesday, 3 July 2002 @ 0600 UTC.
Deadline for items: Sunday, 30 June 2002 @ 2359 UTC.
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