Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Leopard Seal "Face-off"

National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen's YouTube video "Face-Off With a Deadly Predator," an account of his scary encounter with a leopard seal in the Antarctic, has been downloaded more than a million times. Have a look at this amazing piece of footage...

Leopard Sea "Face off"

Tom McManamon

New Horizon Expeditions
www.newhorizon.ie | +353 (0) 1 2883385

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

World Leading Polar Expedition Operator

We are proud to announces that our partners, Oceanwide Expeditions has won the World Travel Award 2009 in the category World's Leading Polar Expedition Operator. The presentation of this international prize took place during a spectacular gala performance in London on Sunday 8 November, 2009.

It was the second time that this prestigious award was categorized by the World Travel Awards Committee. The first time was in 2005 and Oceanwide Expeditions was also the winner of the contest.


I look forward to many more years of Polar travel to the Arctic and Antarctic with Oceanwide.

You can follow our next New Horizon Expedition to Antarctica here on this blog. We will depart Dublin on January 23rd for Buenos Aires and then on to Ushuaia where we board the M/V Plancius on 26th January and make our way South to the Great White Continent of Antarctica.

Tom McManamon

New Horizon Expeditions
www.newhorizon.ie | +353 (0) 1 2883385

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Nearest the South Pole

14 December 2009, 8.30pm - Kevin Barry Room - National Concert Hall, Dublin

Featuring Jonathan Shackleton, Michael Holohan, Donal O'Kelly, Simon O'Dwyer, Peter Sirr and Joseph Woods.

A Multi-Media event commemorating ' Nearest the South Pole' a lecture by Sir Ernest Shackleton based on The Nimrod South Pole Expedition given in the University Buildings (now The National Concert Hall) , Earlsfort Terrace on December 14th 1909.
This commemorative evening will include Jonathan Shackleton's presentation about the Antarctic, rare recording of Ernest Shackleton's own voice, readings from the archives of the 1909 Irish Times, poetry by Derek Mahon, Bill Manhire, T.S. Eliot, Claire Benyon, Peter Sirr and Leland Bardwell read by Peter Sirr and Joseph Woods and a new work by Michael Holohan, ' Where a single footprint lasts a thousand years' - a piece of music-theatre performed by Donal O' Kelly, Simon O 'Dwyer and Michael Holohan.

Tom McManamon

New Horizon Expeditions
www.newhorizon.ie | +353 (0) 1 2883385