Name Marina Svetaeva Draft 5.8 m | Namesake Marina Tsvetaeva Launched 1989 | |
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Owner Russian Academy of Sciences Identification IMO number 8509181Call sign UFKU | ||
Mv ortelius a virtual tour antarctica february 2016
MV Ortelius is an ice-strengthened cruise ship designed for polar exploration. She was built in Gdynia, Poland, in 1989 as Marina Svetaeva, as a special purpose vessel for the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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She operated in the Russian Far East as a passenger and supply vessel, and as an accommodation and supply ship to oil fields in the northern Pacific Ocean. From December 2007 she was chartered by Aurora Expeditions of Sydney, Australia, as a cruise ship in the Arctic and Antarctic seas.
She was acquired in 2011 by the Dutch company Oceanwide Expeditions based in Vlissingen, Netherlands. She was renamed Ortelius and registered in Cyprus.
On 16 January 2014 Ortelius should have sailed for a 10-day Antarctic peninsula voyage. All passengers were aboard, but the anchor system failed and the boat never left port. This technical problem was solved shortly thereafter and Ortelius continued her Antarctic season with passengers. A highlight of Ortelius' Antarctic season was a successful expedition to Snow Hill Island where passengers were transported by helicopter to a colony of emperor penguins and their chicks.
Ushuaia to the antarctic peninsular on the mv ortelius feb 2016
