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Antarctica Sightseeing Flight

Places We Go Team | September 10, 2016 | 10:40 am | 21 Comments

Seeing Antarctica in one day is probably one of the most unique experiences you can have… Only from Australia can you depart on a Qantas 747, privately chartered by Antarctica Flights, and in a 12 hour return journey, see the great white continent in incredible detail – without even the need for a warm jacket. Clint shares his once-in-a-lifetime experience from the breathtaking sights, fantastic fun on board, amazing service and all the emotion of the world’s most unique sightseeing flight.

Places We Go travelled with Antarctica Flights. Visit antarcticaflights.com.au or call 1800 633 449.

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  1. Helen Langsdorf says

    September 10, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Australia has some absolutely breath taking sights. I am lucky enough to have seen some of them. Antarctica would be as lovely as our own beautiful country!

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  2. Christine says

    September 10, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    It would be so fantastic to see the boundless beauty of such a forbiden landscape. Knowing only a few have been there and we hope it will renain forever

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  3. Cheryl Marcel Dodd says

    September 14, 2016 at 5:36 am

    So lucky to live close enough to do this in 12 hours. Fingers crossed I may be a lucky winner.

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  4. Rachel Louise says

    September 16, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    Dreaming of this Jen x

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  5. Vicki Kendall says

    September 17, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    After the last few months of treatment to win such a trip would be amazing.

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  6. Raymond McDowell says

    September 27, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    My Wife and I have talked and dreamed about an Antarctica trip for years.
    To be able to fly over a unique part of the world as this in full daylight would be a memory of a life time.

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  7. Kathy Hickson says

    September 27, 2016 at 8:47 pm

    This is my husbands dream to see Antarctica and here’s hoping I can give him that now with this fantastic competition.

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  8. Samantha Gann says

    September 27, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    I’d love to take my pal Princess Anna because her sister, my bff, went to Antarctica late last year just 5 month before she passed away from breast cancer. For Anna to see what her sister saw before she passed would the greatest gift I could ever give her.

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  9. Len says

    September 27, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    Having thrown up for 24 hours while crossing the Drake Passage and then spending 10 days cruising in zodiacs photographing the magic of Antartica – To now fly over and not have to scrub the penguin poo off my shoes and sip champange instead ,would be really one hell of a hoot …

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  10. Janet says

    September 27, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Such incredible beauty. A bucket list item for everyone. I’d take my nephews teenage daughter who has beaten cancer and continue to be monitored, if doctors allow. She has a fighting spirit that was needed by the pioneers and the courage to persist.

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  11. (Ellen) Adele Love says

    September 27, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    How I would love to experience this amazing journey.
    A relative of mine was on Scott of The Antarctic Expedition. He was Dr Levick, and I believe he was the Botanist and Sergon. I still have a lot of research to do on him, however, I do have a copy of a photo of him taken on that trip.

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  12. Debbie Woods says

    September 28, 2016 at 12:13 am

    Antartica: Extrordinary, pristine,spectacular. Words don’t do it justice. I live in hope I will get to see this amazing place one day.

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  13. Thomas Zenger says

    September 28, 2016 at 5:39 am

    After 2 times in Iceland, that sounds like wonderful nature without the boatload of tourists.

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  14. Dee Schley says

    September 28, 2016 at 6:50 am

    Wow! What a treat that would be. An amazing experience.

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  15. Christine Pitcher says

    September 28, 2016 at 6:59 am

    Wow, wow, wow! Antarctica is the wow factor personified.

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  16. Christine Pitcher says

    September 28, 2016 at 7:00 am

    Antarctica is the WOW factor personified

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  17. Wesley Davey says

    September 28, 2016 at 7:21 am

    Wow, this place looks amazing. A must do, definately added to my bucket list.

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  18. Mary Madigan says

    September 28, 2016 at 7:51 am

    Even the video made me cry. What an amazing trip !!

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  19. Maxwell Mallett says

    September 28, 2016 at 9:01 am

    What a fantastic and exciting adventure, to actually see and experience that great south land of our planet.
    All that, keeping warm and dry too.

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  20. Cheryl says

    February 18, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    Hi watched a show on places we go about this flight on Antarctica just wondering do you still them and how much they are regards Cheryl

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    • Emma De Fry says

      February 20, 2018 at 11:32 am

      Hi Cheryl, the flight is operated by a company called Antarctica Flights, you can find them and all the info on their departures and prices here! http://www.antarcticaflights.com.au/ Thanks for watching!

      Reply
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