Heritage Expeditions announce it will be operating world-renowned Russian icebreaker and former research vessel Kapitan Khlebnikov
Pioneering New Zealand-based expedition cruise company Heritage Expeditions is exceptionally excited and proud to announce it will be operating world-renowned Russian icebreaker and former research vessel Kapitan Khlebnikov when its Russian Far East Wrangel Island voyages start in 2019, with the 2020 season about to go on sale soon.
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When Heritage Expeditions’ Vessel, the Akademik Shokalskiy, berthed in the Russian Port of Anadyr on Monday 24th September, it had made history. It had successfully completed a double transit of the Northern Sea Route (more commonly known as the North East Passage).
The Ross Sea region of Antarctica is one of the most remote places on Planet Earth with shipping restricted by impenetrable pack ice for most of the year. Heritage Expeditions offers Expeditions from New Zealand to the Ross Sea region every austral summer, this season we have also explored the East Antarctic coastline. 
The World’s record of furthest south is broken. A few weeks ago the passenger ship The World claimed a new record for the most southerly navigation for a ship, reaching 78° 43”. 997S in the Bay of Whales. 
