Will Antarctica be changed by big cruise ship?

[Bookworm]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A big cruise ship due to sail Antarctic waters next January will change the face of tourism in one of the world's great wilderness areas, a New Zealand polar academic said Thursday.

The Golden Princess, due to make a three-week voyage through the islands, straits and channels of the Antarctic Peninsula, is 10 times bigger than cruise ships now plying Antarctica's waters, and can carry 3,700 passengers and crew.

"It's evidence of the changing structure of the Antarctic tourism industry as it moves away from smaller vessels toward much larger vessels," Alan Hemmings, a polar policy specialist at Canterbury University, told New Zealand's National Radio.

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[Bookworm]

I really don't think I would want to go on a cruise to a place that I couldn't easily be rescued from if the ship sank.


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