A highlight of that particular season was a successful expedition to Snow Hill Island, where passengers were transported by helicopter to a colony of emperor penguins and their chicks. This technical problem was soon solved, however, and Ortelius continued her Antarctic season as planned.
He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ( Theatre of the World ). All passengers were aboard, but the anchor system failed and the boat never left port. Abraham Ortelius (/ r t i l i s / also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels 4 or 14 April 1527 28 June 1598) was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer.
On 16 January 2014, Ortelius was scheduled to sail for a 10-day Antarctic Peninsula voyage. She was renamed Ortelius and registered in Cyprus. Marina Svetaeva was acquired in 2011 by the Dutch company Oceanwide Expeditions, based in Vlissingen, Netherlands. A former scientific-research vessel, the Ortelius offers the classic small ship experience. In December 2007, she was chartered by Aurora Expeditions of Sydney, Australia, as a cruise ship in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. The vessel ORTELIUS (IMO: 8509181, MMSI 244180151) is a Passenger Ship built in 1989 (34 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Netherlands. The ship operated in the Russian Far East for the Marine Company Sakhalin-Kurils LLC, as a passenger and supply vessel, then as an accommodation and supply ship to oil fields in the northern Pacific Ocean. Offshore supply tug POLARSYSSEL (IMO 9690949) was sent to assist, and though problem can be fixed by crew, it was decided to tow ORTELIUS to Longyearbyen.
She was originally named Marina Svetaeva and was built in Gdynia, Poland, in 1989 as a special-purpose vessel for the LLC RN-Sakhalinmorneftegaz. Passenger ship ORTELIUS with 146 people on board suffered engine failure at night June 3 in Hinlopen Strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Arctic ocean. MV Ortelius is an ice-strengthened vessel currently employed for expedition-style polar cruises by owner and operator Oceanwide Expeditions. Named for a famous 16th century Dutch/Flemish cartographer, Ortelius was built in 1989 in Poland’s famous Gdynia shipyards. Andrews Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica, with a nesting population of close to 500 000 King Penguins. Oceanwide Expeditions, Vlissingen, NetherlandsĢ × Squirrel 350 or Bell 206 LongRanger helicopters Ice-strengthened vessel owned and operated by Oceanwide Expeditions
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