Word: christchurch
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...lofty apex of adventure travel; it is the loudest of holiday boasts. Ninety-seven percent of its visitors depart from the southernmost Argentine port of Ushuaia, where about 20 international tour operators sell cruises on 100-meter ice vessels, each carrying about 100 passengers. Other trips leave from Christchurch, New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania; and South Africa's Cape Town. All offer a beguiling array of experiences from close-up views of mothballed whaling stations to courtesy calls at scientific ghost towns inhabited by haggard meteorologists and bearded seal watchers. Even more spectacular are vistas of primordial glaciers?vertiginous...
...Most tourist trips to Antarctica leave from Argentina, but from Asia-Pacific you might want to make your way via Christchurch, New Zealand, where prominent tour operators include Heritage Expeditions, tel: (643) 338 9944, and the Adventure Travel Company, tel: (643) 379 7134. Meanwhile, Adventure Associates, tel: (612) 9389 7466, organizes departures from Tasmania. For a three-week cruise, expect to pay at least $12,000 a head in a triple cabin or $20,000 for a suite. Also bear in mind that reaching Antarctica from Australasia takes about four days, as opposed to two from Argentina...