Atlantic Ocean destinations include Cape Verde Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, as well as the UK's archipelagos / British Overseas Territories / dependencies SGSSI ( South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), Falkland Islands, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha. The company's Antarctic Ocean destinations include Bouvet Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Ross Sea, Weddell Sea, Ushuaia Argentina (homeport). Each boat is crewed and guided by a dedicated expedition team.

In most of these locations, the cruise ship anchors near the coast and all passengers are tendered (via Zodiac Milpro boats) to the landing sites. Most Oceanwide-organized tours are in sea-only accessible areas, usually without any land/port infrastructure. Oceanwide Expeditions has year-round planned itineraries - during summer (April through September) in the Arctic, and during winter (October through March) in Antarctica. The 1993-founded Oceanwide Expeditions (shipowner) is one of the industry's small cruise line companies offering regularly-scheduled and flexible polar cruise tours providing its customers with the opportunity to contact with Arctic-Antarctica's wildlife, unique landscapes, nautically important polar regions and historical sites. Joost de Hondt (aka Jodocus Hondius the Elder) was born in Wakken (West Flanders, Belgium) and died in Amsterdam Holland. The ship name 'Hondius' honours one of the famous Dutch-Flemish cartographers Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) best-known for his maps of Europe and the New World (Americas and Oceania). Specializing in passenger shipping and navigation in icy waters, with the newbuilds Janssonius and Hondius the headquartered in Vlissingen Netherlands cruise company Oceanwide Expeditions grew not only as fleet/capacity but also as brand popularity and trust. The fleetmates Plancius and Ortelius are former state-owned research vessels previously operated, respectively, by the Royal Dutch Navy and the Russian Academy of Science. The newbuild sisterships Hondius and Janssonius are ice-classed LR-PC6 ('Lloyd's Register Polar Class 6') passenger vessels with ice-strengthened hulls. The vessel (IMO number 9818709) is currently Holland- flagged (MMSI 244327000) and registered in Rotterdam. The 2019-built MV Hondius cruise ship is the first of the newest vessels in the Oceanwide Expeditions fleet, together with Janssonius (2022/sistership), Ortelius (1989), Plancius (1976) and the two polar-class sailing ships Noorderlicht (1991) and Rembrandt van Rijn (1994).

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