The sinking of the MS Explorer: implications for cruise tourism in Arctic Canada

BUILT IN 1969, AND AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN as “thelittle red ship, ” the MS Explorer was the first vesselspecifically designed for transport of passengers in the polar regions (Fig. 1). Under the name Lindblad Ex-plorer, she took passengers to Antarctica in the 1969–70 austral summer (Splettstoesser, 2...

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Main Authors: E. J. Stewart, D. Draper
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.554.8205
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic61-2-224.pdf
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Summary:BUILT IN 1969, AND AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN as “thelittle red ship, ” the MS Explorer was the first vesselspecifically designed for transport of passengers in the polar regions (Fig. 1). Under the name Lindblad Ex-plorer, she took passengers to Antarctica in the 1969–70 austral summer (Splettstoesser, 2000), and in 1984 she