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36-852: The ship was originally built in 1998. Its initial operations were likely focused on luxury cruises, given Compagnie du Ponant's reputation for offering high-end cruise experiences primarily around the French territories and beyond. She operated with Compagnie du Ponant as Le Levant until December 2012 when she was refurbished and transferred to Paul Gauguin Cruises, operating under the name Tere Moana . She now specialises in European, Caribbean, and Latin American cruises. The name Tere Moana translates into Ocean Traveller in Tahitian. In August 2015, Paul Gauguin Cruises sold

72-484: A subarctic climate ( Köppen : Dfc ; Trewartha : Eclc ). Winters are long and frigid; summers are pleasant and short. January is the coldest month with an average temperature of −22.1 °C (−7.8 °F). July is the warmest month with an average temperature of 12.1 °C (53.8 °F). Temperatures above 25 °C (77 °F) are rare. The lowest temperature ever recorded was −46.8 °C (−52.2 °F) recorded on January 3, 1913. The highest temperature recorded

108-578: A cemetery in Tavayvaam . Following this tip, the remains were recovered and then paraded solemnly through Anadyr to the monuments, where they were buried with full honors. In 1923, Novo–Mariinsk was renamed Anadyr. During World War II , an airfield was built here for the Alaska-Siberian ( ALSIB ) air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front . During the 1960s, Anadyr

144-451: A century, the origins of the name Anadyr are much older. The name initially derives from the Yukaghir word " any-an " meaning " river ". When Semyon Dezhnev met Yukaghir people in the area, the indigenous name was corrupted to form " Onandyr ", later Anadyrsk , the name of the ostrog (fort) upstream of the present-day settlement, from which the current name is derived. The ostrog was

180-448: A decade. It is claimed that the town of Anadyr annexed the neighboring "ethnic village" of Tavayvaam in May 1994, and that this was done by then governor Alexander Nazarov with a view to saving money from the autonomous okrug's budget. If the village had indeed been absorbed into the town of Anadyr then there would have been no obligation for the autonomous okrug to allocate specific funds for

216-613: A subcompany of Fincantieri . They were delivered in 2018 and 2019. The ships are named Le Lapérouse , Le Champlain , Le Bougainville and Le Dumont-d'Urville . In December 2017, Le Lapérouse left Vard Tulcea in Romania and was heading to final outfitting at Vard facility in Norway. She arrived in mid of January. In December 2017, Ponant announced that it had ordered an icebreaking expedition cruise ship from Vard. The 2.7 billion  kr (about €274 million) vessel will be built to

252-554: Is a French cruise ship operator. It was founded in April 1988 by Philippe Videau, Jean-Emmanuel Sauvé, and other officers of the French Merchant Navy and launched the first French cruise ship. The company operates eleven ships, all of which operate under the French flag. Ponant started out with one ship, Le Ponant , a three masted Barque built in 1991. Le Ponant still operates with the company today. Eight years later in 1999,

288-558: Is a port town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , Russia , located at the mouth of the Anadyr River at the tip of a peninsula that protrudes into Anadyrsky Liman . It was previously known as Novo-Mariinsk (until 1923). Anadyr is the easternmost town in Russia; more easterly settlements, such as Provideniya and Uelen , do not have town status. Although the town itself has only been in existence for just over

324-464: Is unlike anything ever previously synthesized in a laboratory. Steinhardt's team established that the natural quasicrystals were embedded in a meteorite that had hit Earth about 15,000 years ago. The town of Anadyr is situated at the tip of a large cape, to the north of which is the mouth of the Anadyr River and to the east the estuarine part of that river, the Anadyrsky Liman , which empties into

360-520: The Paul Gauguin . In 2020 Ponant came under criticism for refusing to provide refunds to passengers from cancelled cruises due to COVID-19 . During the pandemic, the ship did not sail for some time but resumed operations on 18 July 2020 for local residents and on 29 July for international guests, with reduced occupancy. A news report on 3 August 2020 stated that the COVID-19 virus had been detected on

396-521: The Gulf of Anadyr . The town itself is situated on a gentle slope rising up from the sea, on the other side of the Anadyr River are mountains, but to the west, beyond the town are large expanses of flat tundra. It is on a similar parallel as Fairbanks, Alaska ; Skellefteå, Sweden ; and Oulu, Finland . Apart from those cities, the population at such northerly parallels is normally sparse. Anadyr experiences

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432-695: The Tere Moana to Grand Circle Cruises. The ship was renamed Clio and began sailing for Grand Circle Cruises, under the flag of Malta in July 2016. Clio has two restaurants and two bars. She also features the Deep Nature Spa, a fitness center and a swimming pool. These are images of Clio in her previous livery as Le Levant . As Tere Moana in Panama, February 2015 Compagnie du Ponant Ponant (officially, Compagnie du Ponant ( CDP ) ; "Ponant Company")

468-459: The United States . The airport is on the other side of the Anadyrsky Liman , and from January to May, transportation from the airport to Anadyr is by ice road . In the summer there is a ferry which transports passengers across the Anadyr River to the airport, but during spring and autumn when the river ice is melting and full of drifting ice floes, the only means of transportation to the airport

504-402: The framework of administrative divisions , it also serves as the administrative center of Anadyrsky District , even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the selo Tavayvaam , incorporated separately as the town of okrug significance of Anadyr —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division ,

540-511: The MS Paul Gauguin while it was in Papeete, Tahiti ; passengers were required to stay in their cabins. At that time, after renovations, the capacity was stated to be 318 guests plus a crew of 216. The ship had been modified to use a "cleaner" fuel: LS MGO – Low-Sulphur Marine Gas Oil and the company planned "to offset 150 percent of its carbon emissions". In spring 2020, Le Commandant Charcot

576-657: The Russian Far East, and it took until early 1923 before communications were sent from Kamchatka by Red Army commanders indicating that all White Army forces in Chukotka had been eliminated. Monuments to those members of the First Revolutionary Committee were erected in Anadyr on 5 July 1921. It was only in 1969 that an elderly man said he remembered where the bodies had been buried, having seen them being interred in

612-473: The armory and ammunition supplies within the town. The merchants used this opportunity to reassert themselves, and by January 30, 1920, they surrounded the Revkom's offices and attacked. One of the leaders, Vasily Titov, was killed and a number of others were wounded. Mikhail Mandrikov himself surrendered. Although the survivors were initially imprisoned, the merchants decided to eliminate them permanently. Under

648-642: The claims coming from Anadyr and, whilst establishing the Second Revolutionary Committee of Chukotka in Markovo pressed the Kamchatka Revkom for assistance. The Kamchatka Revkom responded by sending a party to investigate. A number of those involved in the overthrow of the First Revolutionary Committee either ceased their political activity in the hope of blending into the background, or fled Chukotka for Alaska . Struggles continued for some time in

684-441: The company acquired Le Levant, a yacht. After 13 years in service with Ponant, Le Levant was purchased by Paul Gauguin Cruises in 2012 and became Tere Moana . In 2004, Ponant purchased Le Diamant , a luxury liner. Le Diamant transferred to Quark Expeditions in 2012 to become Ocean Diamond . Later, in 2010, Ponant put into service the first of a series of four identical luxury sister ships, Le Boreal . A year later,

720-497: The company began operating the second ship of the class, L'Austral and in 2013 the third ship of the class was added to the fleet, Le Soléal . The fourth ship of the class, Le Lyrial , was delivered in 2015. Initially based in Nantes for 18 years, in 2006 the company headquarters was moved to Marseille following its acquisition by CMA CGM . In 2012, CMA CGM sold Ponant to Bridgepoint Capital . On April 4, 2008, Le Ponant

756-566: The frigate Jean Bart and the Jeanne d'Arc moved in when the pirates attempted to flee in the desert. A sniper disabled the get-away vehicle, and the commandos were able to capture six men. Local officials claimed that three people died in the raid, with a further eight wounded, but France denied this. Troops also recovered some of the ransom money paid by the owner of the yacht for the release of its crew. The six captured pirates have since been flown to Paris, where they shall face trial. In 2012,

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792-485: The indigenous population there. In 2011, Paul Steinhardt led a group of scientists that landed in Anadyr en route to an expedition into the Koryak Mountains to search for naturally occurring quasicrystals . Three quasicrystals have been found to date from the material gathered on that expedition, including icosahedrite, decagonite, a yet unnamed third natural quasicrystal, which (unlike icosahedrite and decagonite)

828-566: The name was swiftly changed to Novo–Mariinsk. The Kamchatka Revkom sent the first Bolsheviks —Mikhail Mandrikov and Avgust Berzin—to Anadyr to set up an underground organization to undermine and eventually overthrow the resident White Army forces stationed in the town. These two, along with a small group of other Russian immigrants and a handful of Chuvans , established the First Revolutionary Committee of Chukotka. Their presence initially went undetected, although it did arouse suspicion. However, just before they were about to be discovered by

864-593: The only Russian settlement east of the Kolyma River on the Chukotka Peninsula for most of the 18th century, though this original settlement was situated further up the Anadyr River , nearer to Markovo than the site of the current town. Pyotr Baranov (brother of Alexander Andreyevich Baranov ) established a trading post near the present town site in the early 19th century and the Chukchi settled around it, forming

900-708: The owner of Compagnie du Ponant, CMA CGM, sold the company to Bridgepoint Capital . In 2013, one of Ponant's ships, Le Soleal , became the first French commercial shipping vessel to traverse the Northwest Passage . The vessel left Kangerlussuaq in Greenland on August 26, 2013, and arrived in Anadyr , in Russia on September 16, 2013. In 2015, Groupe Artémis bought Compagnie du Ponant from Bridgepoint. In March 2016, Ponant ordered four new ships with about 10,000 GT at Vard,

936-404: The pretense of transferring them to another site, they led them out of the town and executed them out on the tundra. The merchants' and White Army's success had been aided by the fact that a number of the Revkom members had been out the town visiting the village of Markovo . When these people returned, they were ambushed and all survivors eventually killed. The merchants set about reestablishing

972-746: The prevailing ice conditions. Le Commandant Charcot is also the first ship to feature a Polar Class 2 icebreaking hull. On March 29, 2021, following the announcement of François-Henri Pinault, Managing Partner of Artémis, Hervé Gastinel took over after Jean-Emmanuel Sauvée as the company's CEO. [REDACTED] Media related to Compagnie du Ponant at Wikimedia Commons Anadyr (town) Anadyr ( Russian : Ана́дырь , IPA: [ɐˈnadɨrʲ] ; Chukchi : Кагыргын , romanized:  Kagyrgyn , IPA [kɑɣərˈɣən] ; Southern Chukchi : Въэӈын , romanized:  V"èňyn , Central Siberian Yupik : Ўиңа/Ўиңын , romanized:  Winga/Wingen , IPA [ɣʷiŋən] )

1008-463: The resident White Army troops, they launched an attack against them on the night of December 16, 1919. They intended to free the local indigenous people from their debts to the Russian incomers and dismantle the capitalist infrastructure that had been established in the town. Their attempts at seizing the property of the merchant class in Anadyr were successful, but they were unable to seize control of

1044-462: The second-highest IACS ice class , Polar Class 2 , and will be capable of taking tourists to the North Pole . The vessel, named Le Commandant Charcot , was delivered in 2021. In March 2018, Ponant announced the order of two additional 180-passenger expedition ships, Le Bellot and Le Jaques Cartier ; they joined the company in 2020. In 2019 Ponant purchased Paul Gauguin Cruises owners of

1080-492: The status quo, all the while pretending to the Kamchatka Revkom that they themselves were socialists when inquiries came as to the whereabouts of their colleagues, going as far as to set up a fake Anadyr branch of the Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Unfortunately for the merchants in Anadyr, members of the first Revkom had already managed to establish branches in Markovo and Ust-Belaya , who were not convinced by

1116-525: The town of okrug significance of Anadyr is incorporated as Anadyr Urban Okrug . Anadyr is an important sea port on the Bering Sea and is connected to almost all major Russian Far Eastern seaports. Anadyr's Ugolny Airport serves major and minor cities in the Russian Far East with connections to Khabarovsk , Vladivostok , and Moscow , while Bering Air provides charter flights to Nome, Alaska in

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1152-457: The village of Vyon in 1830. The present settlement was founded in 1889 as Novo–Mariinsk by L. F. Grinevetsky, who sailed into the Anadyrsky Liman on July 9, 1889. The town's first building was completed twelve days later and as it was the name-day of Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna the town was named Mariinsk. Since this was not the first time that a town had been named Mariinsk in Russia,

1188-461: Was 30 °C (86 °F) on July 7, 1956. The weather changes easily with heavy storms often being brought in from the Anadyrsky Liman and the Bering Sea . This coupled with strong southerly winds in the autumn often brings flooding to the area. May is the driest month while January is the wettest. Source 3: Time and Date (dewpoints, between 1985–2015) Infoclimat Anadyr is the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and, within

1224-628: Was being built by Vard, Fincantieri shipbuilding subsidiary in Norway. This high polar exploration ship is equipped with a hybrid propulsion system which uses both electricity and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Delivered in August 2021 Le Commandant Charcot has a similar design to the PONANT Explorer series, though she is larger and more powerful. Due to the manoeuvrability of the Azipod systems , she can operate both in ahead direction and sternfirst, depending on

1260-532: Was home to an R-12 Dvina (SS-4 Sandal) medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) complex, which could target American military installations in Alaska. The base was located 23 km (14 miles) northeast of Anadyr and was the USSR's only remote missile site. Anadyr was granted town status in 1965, around which time it had a population of 5,600. The Hope Sled Dog Race was run between Anadyr and Nome, Alaska for more than

1296-529: Was seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden while en route from the Seychelles to the Mediterranean . The ship carried no passengers at the time of its capture, but all 30 crewmembers were taken hostage. The hostages were released without incident on April 12. Following the release, French helicopters tracked the pirates to the village of Jariban . French commando marine and GIGN operating from

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