Emory Kristof, an undersea photographer for National Geographic magazine who went on the discovery voyage in 1985 and dived on the Titanic in 1991 to help make a movie, said recovery efforts were helping save the ship for posterity.
On 23 January, by now under her own power, she reached the Ross Ice Shelf (then known as the "Great Ice Barrier", or "Barrier"), where Shackleton planned to base his headquarters in an inlet discovered during the Discovery voyage.
Ms. Lansdale, her husband, Tom, and their 13-year-old daughter, Olivia, traveled to Alaska last summer to tour Prince William Sound on a weeklong Discovery Voyages cruise.
Discovery Voyages (online at www.discoveryvoyages.com), a small company based in Alaska that uses a 65-foot working yacht named The Discovery, is offering a new cruise this year called The Adventurer.
When Prince Henry the Navigator undertook sponsorship of Portuguese discovery voyages down the west coast of Africa, a principal motive was to find the mouth of a river to be ascended to these mines.
His new book-in-progress, Antarctica Through the Looking Glass: The Victorian Discovery Voyages, 1838-42, reconsthects the vital role of the first South Polar expeditions in the origin of modern climate science and glaciology.
Adventure Life Voyages, AdventureSmith Explorations, America Safari Cruises, Cruise West, Discovery Voyages, Lindblad Expeditions and the Yukon Queen II (Holland America) offer a variety of small boat cruises.
Following the Abel Tasman and James Cook discovery voyages a French expedition led by Bruni d'Entrecasteaux sent to find lost explorer La Perouse was caught in a storm in 1792 and sought refuge in Recherche Bay on the southeast tip of Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania.
These, and some 160 other bird species, are reason enough for joining Crystal Cruises' kayak safari on its Eastern Danube Discoveries voyages.
The fascinating story of plants and their uses is marked by scientific discoveries, sea voyages to explore distant countries, commercial development, preservation in botanical gardens, and finally the great wealth and intrigue that surrounded the establishment of princely gardens.
These were wonderful years of voyage, discovery and self-esteem.
