Ponant Asia Pacific Chairman Sarina Bratton was on hand to welcome Le Lapérouse to Darwin for the start of the company’s long-awaited 2022 Kimberley season.

Silversea Cruises will use Puerto Williams, Chile, as the Antarctica gateway for its ice-class expedition ships Silver Cloud, Silver Wind and Silver Explorer in the 2022/23 season.

The hull of Seabourn's second expedition newbuild, Seabourn Pursuit, was moved to T. Mariotti in Genoa for final outfitting.

Viking partnered with the University of Cambridge to establish a new professorship aimed at advancing research in polar environmental science.

Abercrombie & Kent is expanding its luxury expedition cruises for 2023-24 to all seven continents including four new itineraries in Europe, Africa and across the South Pacific.

PolarQuest’s Stockholm will arrive in Svalbard at the end of this month as the line returns to cruising after a two-year pause.

New Zealand family-owned Heritage Expeditions’ flagship Heritage Adventurer will charter new routes for the company’s 2023-24 ‘Southern Ocean Season’ on sale now.

Hurtigruten Expeditions’ partnership with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania will support Antarctic research into the next decade going through to July 2031.

After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, Ponant will return to Australia April 28 with a 2022 Kimberley season to be operated by the 264-passenger Le Soléal.