Japan_25/26_Shirase_V1

Provisional cruise schedule of SHIRASE: Departure Date: Nov 19, 2025 @Yokoyuka, Japan Arrival Date: Dec 4, 2025 @ the port of Fremantle, Australia. About 80 JARE-67 expeditioners will fly into Australia and be onboard the ship. Departure Date: Dec 8, 2025 @ the port of Fremantle, Australia Arrival Date: Dec 16, 2025 @ in the vicinity of Totten Glacier Areas of Operation: in the vicinity of Totten Glacier Departure Date: Dec 23, 2025 @ in the vicinity of Totten Glacier Arrival Date: Late Dec, 2025 @ ice edge of Lutzow-Holmbukta, Kronprins Olav Kyst Areas of Operation: Syowa Station and Lutzow-Holmbukta, Kronprins Olav Kyst Departure Date: Feb 8, 2026 @ ice edge of Lutzow-Holmbukta, Kronprins Olav Kyst Arrival Date: Feb 23, 2026 @ the port of Fremantle, Australia. The JARE-66 wintering members and some JARE-67 summer members will disembark from the ship and return to Japan. The other JARE-67 summer members will be on board the ship. Departure Date: Feb 26, 2026 @ the port of Fremantle, Australia -There will be many helicopter flights between SHIRASE/Syowa Station/Field camps from late Dec 2025 to early Feb 2026. -Some arrivals and departures of the fixed-wing aircraft at Syowa runway and S17 runway from Nov 2025 to February 2026. High profile activities: -The traverse between S17 point (20km east of Syowa Station) and the Dome Fuji CAMP II from November 2024 to February 2025. The traverse team will conduct the deep ice core drilling. -Marine science off Totten Glacier onboard SHIRASE.