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Antarctic shipborne tourism: facilitation and research at Arctowski Station, King George Island

1999; De Gruyter Open; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

2081-8262

B. Stonehouse,

Marine animal studies overview

The tradition of the Department of Antarctic Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, of welcoming visitors from cruise ships to their Antarctic research station Henryk Arctowski, has in recent years been strained by increasing numbers of visits and visitors, following an unsteady but positive expansion of the industry during the last decade. The Department has developed a policy to manage the increased numbers more effectively, at the same time enabling studies on several aspects of tourism-related research. This paper reports on the start of a three-year introductory programme of visitor management and research, in cooperation with the Polar Ecology and Management Group of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.