The cruise of MS Golden Princess in Antarctic waters, January 2007

Abstract

In January 2007, MS Golden Princess, carrying 2425 passengers and a crew of approximately 1100, became the largest ship to sail Antarctic waters within the northern limit of pack ice. This note describes the ship and its itinerary, discusses aspects of the cruise, and comments on the use of large cruise liners in Antarctic waters.

Is it all going south? Four future scenarios for Antarctica

“…Analysis of tourism trends over the last five decades suggests further growth in tourism numbers over the next decade, accompanied by further diversification of the tourism product (Bastmeijer & Roura, 2004; Bertram & Stonehouse, 2007) and a greater volume of yacht-based tourism and individual (non-commercial) adventure tourism activities. Challenges arising from the growth and diversification of tourism include: an increased potential for devastating incidents and accidents (see for example, Republic of Liberia, 2009 and the Berserk 2011 expedition), resulting in the pressing need for closer collaboration between the different national Search and Rescue Coordination Centres responsible for operations in the Southern Ocean (Jabour, 2017) a greater probability of the introduction of non-native species or diseases (Hofman & Jatko, 2000; Pfeiffer & Peter, 2003) difficulties for ATCPs to regulate an increasingly diverse spectrum of tourist activities (Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, 2005; ATCM, 2012) difficulties for IAATO to manage an increasingly diverse spectrum of tourist activities (ATCM, 2012; Haase, Lamers, & Amelung, 2009) gateway cities (that is, a coastal or island port able by its proximity to the Antarctic to benefit from and control access to Antarctic and Southern Ocean resources, including fishing, tourism and scientific support [Chua, Shah, Husin, & Rahman, 2015]) having to deal with waste brought back from Antarctica by tour operators (Bertram, 2005) gateway cities providing sufficient tourism infrastructure (including accommodation and other tourism services) during the peak tourism season (Swanson, Liggett, & Roldan, 2015) legal implications and duties imposed on port states (under UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) and their consequences for gateway cities, particularly if memoranda of understanding on Port State Jurisdiction put more responsibility on the shoulders of gateway ports (Bertram, Muir and Stonehouse, 2007; Swanson et al, 2015). …”

“…legal implications and duties imposed on port states (under UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) and their consequences for gateway cities, particularly if memoranda of understanding on Port State Jurisdiction put more responsibility on the shoulders of gateway ports (Bertram, Muir and Stonehouse, 2007; Swanson et al, 2015).…”

Non-Birational Twisted Derived Equivalences in Abelian GLSMs

“…This physics naturally latches onto some corresponding mathematics. It can be shown [36] that the moduli of (smooth) complete intersections of two quadrics in P 2g+1 are naturally isomorphic to the moduli of hyperelliptic curves of genus g. The isomorphism can be summarized as follows. Given a smooth quadric Q in C 2g+2 , there are two families of maximal isotropic (Lagrangian) subspaces of Q.…”

Wildlife and oil in the Antarctic: a recipe for cold disaster

“…There has been a rapid increase in the number of vessels in the Antarctic in the last two to three decades for fishing, research and tourism (for example Haase 2005, 2008; Liggett and others 2011). Large vessels are used for fishing and to transport the bulk supplies (annual food and fuel supplies) to research stations, and large vessels are now being used for fishing and commercial tourism activities (for example the 110,000 tonne Golden Princess carries 3800 passengers and crew to the Antarctic (Bertram and others 2007; Wright 2008)).…”